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I am a big fan of a particular sport. One of the things I enjoy is surfing the internet and looking at photos fans take in their respective cities for their respective professional teams.
I would like to build a website where fans of this particular sport could post their pictures in order to develop a sort of searchable database of pictures.
Visitors to the site would be allowed to upload only those photos that they took themselves and are willing to make freely available to other fans. All uploaded photos will be reviewed before being made available on the website.
The photos would not be for sale. Viewing and downloading them for personal use would be totally free. Photos such as those taken by members of the media, collectable cards, photos containing watermarks from other websites and officially licensed photos would not be allowed and would be removed immediately if they are found to be copyrighted or licensed elsewhere.
By putting together such a collection of fan-taken photos, would I be looking at any kind of licensing or copyright violations as long as I'm not charging anyone for the service (aside from any potential website advertisers)?
In my mind, this would be no different than any other fan site on the internet. Am I mistaken in this or is every site that puts up their own photos violating official licensing laws?
I am a big fan of a particular sport. One of the things I enjoy is surfing the internet and looking at photos fans take in their respective cities for their respective professional teams.
I would like to build a website where fans of this particular sport could post their pictures in order to develop a sort of searchable database of pictures.
Visitors to the site would be allowed to upload only those photos that they took themselves and are willing to make freely available to other fans. All uploaded photos will be reviewed before being made available on the website.
The photos would not be for sale. Viewing and downloading them for personal use would be totally free. Photos such as those taken by members of the media, collectable cards, photos containing watermarks from other websites and officially licensed photos would not be allowed and would be removed immediately if they are found to be copyrighted or licensed elsewhere.
By putting together such a collection of fan-taken photos, would I be looking at any kind of licensing or copyright violations as long as I'm not charging anyone for the service (aside from any potential website advertisers)?
In my mind, this would be no different than any other fan site on the internet. Am I mistaken in this or is every site that puts up their own photos violating official licensing laws?