Thats a very good idea,i think you should talk with the people in charge.if you need any other relationship advice am here.
Typically I use Dun & Bradstreet (https://www.dnb.com/) for vendor or customer credit lookup. They have good customer service and very accurate information.
I agree with my colleague. For the interest of clarification, the answer to your initial question (would you need to seek permission from the original (copyright owner). I believe my colleague was answering "No," to your second question are there standard policies for sporting event pictures. ...
I work at Long Island University in NY. You should start by reaching out to local universities and requesting their criteria for providing credit for continuing education courses. The incentive for most colleges is to offer the course on their campus, collect tuition for each class, and gain camp...
Setup your business as a pass through. You run the transactions + charge a fee. Likely, for the businesses you mention, they'd be happy to pay a premium fee... as you will be the only payment processor to accept their transactions.
Its a combination of the First Data Offerwise Platform and the CardSpring API. You need to get certified by First Data in order to get access to the datasets required to build a service like that.