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Are Hubble photos copyrighted?
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.... |
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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. See: http://www.stsci.edu/institute/Copyright I thought that maybe US citizens have free access to the photos We all have free access to them. IANAL, but I do not think there is any legal mechanism for restricting public domain to the citizens of a particular nation; for one thing, the logistics of enforcing that sort of restriction would be horrendous! Public domain means everybody everywhere. Best, Stephen Remove footfrommouth to reply -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Stephen Tonkin | ATM Resources; Astro-Tutorials; Astro Books + + (N51.162 E0.995) | http://astunit.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |
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In this case, the copyright means that if you are going to copy them, copy
them right --- nice clean copies that people can enjoy. Other than that, they are free to everyone to use. That's what the public in public domain means. Clear Skies Chuck Taylor Do you observe the moon? Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/ Are you interested in understanding optics? Try http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ATM_Optics_Software/ ************************************ wrote in message oups.com... 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.... |
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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? Not only that, but if you modify an image, even if that simply means adding a border* around it, then you may copyright the image as your own! * http://www.astrographics.com/Posters/POS0010.html |
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Not only that, but if you modify an image, even if that simply means adding a border* around it, then you may copyright the image as your own! * http://www.astrographics.com/Posters/POS0010.html Not exactly. You may copyright the resulting work of art as a whole -- which is comprised of the Hubble image, your border, the caption that you wrote, the way in which you use the type faces (on which someone else holds a copyright, but which you use under license); but you may not copyright the Hubble image. If I buy your poster and cut away everything that you added, leaving only the Hubble image, your copyright goes away. This would also hold if I bought your literary masterwork and cut out the word "the." I would be free to incorporate that word into my own best-seller. Davoud |
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