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Shout out to NASA and whoever did this, as they've always had a much clearer mandate to make things public domain. On their website they explicitly state that i
by TallGuyShort 11y ago
Shout out to NASA and whoever did this, as they've always had a much clearer mandate to make things public domain. On their website they explicitly state that images, models, etc. are not copyrighted unless they were copyrighted by someone else and used with permission.
- tombert 11y agoIs that true?! I think I might have a few new desktop backgrounds coming up... It totally makes sense. I kind of thought the whole point of public research was so that everyone could benefit.
- TallGuyShort 11y agohttp://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html There are some restrictions but they're all very sensible, like forbidding the use of official logos to imply endorsement, etc.
- cowsandmilk 11y agoThat isn't a NASA policy, that is the law about works by government employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th... This is actually reflected in the copyright agreements at every major journal. See, for instance, Form B at the ACS journals. http://pubs.acs.org/page/copyright/journals/index.html http://pubs.acs.org/page/copyright/journals/index.html The difference is in whom the employer is. If you are employed by a university doing work on a government grant, you are not a federal employee, so the work is copyrighted.
- TallGuyShort 11y agoI suspected the all-government-employees thing but wasn't aware of the journal copyright aspect. Thanks for clarifying with sources!