Yes, it's a misunderstanding. If you look back on the thread, I brought in the hobbyist concept via IRS as an incongruence between FAA guidelines and IRS laws as for the definition of a "hobby."Well of course you can give away whatever you want to. And no one was talking about copyright laws that I remember. This is all about profiting from your Phantom. If you're talking about something else, then I misunderstood.
In any case, we have some folks in here convinced that even GIVING away your photos is illegal. Completely disagree on the basis that the COPYRIGHT owner is the one who took the photo (NOT the FAA simply because it was taken from the air), and said copyright owner can do whatever the heck they want with it provided they don't make money off it (you'd need a 333 for that of course).
On the "business" end of things...how about this example. If I made a music video using aerial footage I took out of a Southwest airplane window, along with drone footage, and music I recorded, do you think the FAA or the airline has ANY say on whether that could be sold for a profit or published on Youtube or not? Can the FAA say no more pictures out the window unless you don't sell them? Good luck with THAT.
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