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Isn't it a copyright infringement to pick up some radio signal, reassemble it to pictures and publish them?
by lixtra 8y ago
Isn't it a copyright infringement to pick up some radio signal, reassemble it to pictures and publish them?
- followben 8y agoBoth Longjiang satellites carry a VHF/UHF amateur radio transceiver built and operated by the Harbin Institute of Technology in China. They've open sourced software specifically so radio amateurs can decode telemetry as well as image data: https://github.com/bg2bhc/gr-dslwp https://github.com/bg2bhc/gr-dslwp
- na85 8y agoWritten with tongue only half in cheek: Depends. In the US where media companies write copyright law and hand it to legislators, yes. In China where there appears to be no Rule of Law, no.
- jnmandal 8y agoOne of the most authoritarian regimes history has ever seen has "no rule of law" it seems.
- jandrese 8y agoDepends on the wishes of the people who originated the signal. There are plenty of OTA signals that are free to the public, like NOAA weather satellite data. They're paid for by the public and are in the public domain. I don't know specifically about these signals, but it seems like the Chinese government is pretty open with them as well.