What’s the copyright law regarding pictures taken with the Hubble and other space telescopes?
Are the Hubble, ESO, ESA, NASA and Spitzer telescopes’ deep-space photos protected by copyright, or are they open to use because they were obtained with government funds? What are the pertinent rules of usage? If permission is needed, where would that be obtained?.
Ciamalo … I thing Bryce’s advice is right on. I don’t really have a better answer.
I did want to add this, though: I can imagine an instance where an individual or non-government enterprise might pay NASA to carry a payload into space for them or where such an enterprise might lease NASA’s equipment for a special mission. In such a case, the data collected during the period of the lease may be considered the property of the enterprise and thus be subject to the same protections afforded to data collected by the company whenever they use their own equipment.
Mind you, I don’t know that for fact; I’m merely speculating.
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