On 5 Feb 2005 20:39:29 -0800, wrote:

Being that this marvel of modern technology was funded by US taxpayer
money, I would think that that data that it captures is public domain.
Would that then mean that one could reproduce the lovely photos without
paying royalties? I thought that maybe US citizens have free access to
the photos the same way that universities had free access to DARPANET
before the creation of the WWW and ISPs took over. I just have a stupid
idea....

Depends. What do you want to use the images to sell?
-Rich