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Curated free-to-use space photography
- ohitsdom 12y agoNot a fan of the rounded corners/edges, but the photos are more than beautiful enough to make up for it.
- tempodox 12y agoHoly crap, some of these images are beyond beautiful.
- dewey 12y agoAnother one: unsplash.com
- c0ur7n3y 12y agoI don't think that this is a photo: http://peek.space/art/peek-space-img-24/ http://peek.space/art/peek-space-img-24/
- Trumpet6 12y agoIndeed, its an "Artist concept of Ganymede and Jupiter"[1], which only further highlights the pointlessness of having an collection of space images without any metadata. [1]:http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march/nasa-s-hubble-observations-suggest-underground-ocean-on-jupiters-largest-moon http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march/nasa-s-hubble-observati...
- Udo_Schmitz 12y agoI’m in Germany where you can’t give up your “Urheberrecht” (literal: Creator’s right, equivalent to copyright) so technically NASA’s (or other US government agencies) photos are copyrighted here—even if they're public domain in the US. Anybody ever looked into that?
- vinceguidry 12y agoIf the person you pay to worry about that kind of stuff is worried about the risk of NASA suing you, you should probably get a better worrier. Or is there something here I'm missing?
- germanier 12y agoIt's not the risk of NASA suing you but the risk of the original creator suing you. As copyright can't be transferred under German law, it was never transferred to NASA in the first place from Germany's point of view. Unlikely, but might happen.
- waterlesscloud 12y agoSo if I write an article on assignment for a German newspaper, I own the copyright still? Huh.
- germanier 12y agoYes, you'll own the copyright but usually sign away almost all rights that go along with that. There is only one small thing that they can't do: Change your article substantially and still put your name on.
- snowwrestler 12y agoThat seems really unlikely to me unless the photographer in question was a German citizen, or the photo was taken in Germany. Otherwise they would not have standing in Germany. It would come down to international copyright agreements like ACTA and I don't think those allow each nation to spread their own copyright laws over the entire globe. But really vinceguidry is right here: the risk calculation for copyright is not just what the law says, but what is the practical likelihood of being sued under the law. This is true across the board; it's how a million blogs get away with using copyrighted photos on their blog posts.
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- jdnier 12y agoHere we have a "curator" saying these photos are from "Source: NASA", but with no additional details provided. No original source or URL, no captions, no detail on cropping or manipulation, just a collection of "the best ones" he's found somewhere on the Internet. Nice to look at but lacking all context.
- shkkmo 12y agoI agree, I would like better attribution, and possibly some context. The photos are beautiful, but with some information about what I am looking at, it would be much more interesting.
- lelandbatey 12y agoWhile attempting to view some of the full-sized images, I got an error message from Unicorn saying "No servers are available to service your request. Might I suggest using a static file host of some kind for the full sized images?
- ArekDymalski 12y agoIn case someone is interested, one of the most beautiful photos in this collection (parachute over the clouds) is by Bill Ingalls and is licensed under Creative Commons Non Commercial license. (so you aren't completely free to use it) https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/16604583049/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/16604583049/ It shows Soyuz TMA-14M bringing back astronauts from ISS.