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steveball
Joined: 10 Mar 2009
Posts: 62
Location: Swansea, UK
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:10 am
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If I used a photo of Earth (NASA) in a photoshop composite would it be refused because of copyright?
Thanks for any replies. |
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Mike Price
Joined: 06 Jun 2008
Posts: 2919
Location: South Wales
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:47 am
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I think most of the sites allow the use of NASA photos providing that they are not just reproduced but substantially modified in a design. I know the SXP site gives specific advice to this effect.
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steveball
Joined: 10 Mar 2009
Posts: 62
Location: Swansea, UK
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:52 am
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Thanks Mike, I'll check it out. |
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triceratops
Joined: 15 Nov 2006
Posts: 7861
Location: The other Nevada
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:01 am
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Their use is allowed so long as the NASA image is only a part of the overall composition and credit to NASA is given in the description. |
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mauijon
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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Location: Maui, Hawaii
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:55 pm
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The Russians were in space, too. I wonder do they have an agency that sells space/earth pictures? |
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steveball
Joined: 10 Mar 2009
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Location: Swansea, UK
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Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:29 pm
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Thanks for the info , triceratops.
The russians may also have better pics! |
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ruxpriencdiam
Joined: 07 May 2009
Posts: 26259
Location: Third Stone from the Sun
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:59 am
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Bump. |
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peteklinger
Joined: 01 Aug 2007
Posts: 1027
Location: Great Place By a Great Lake
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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:59 am
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Now that ruxpriencdiam brought this thread back from the dead? :-)
Works must show sufficient human creativity to be eligible to copyright at all. A simple reproductive photograph of a two-dimensional artwork does not give rise to a new copyright on the photograph. Many other countries (but not all!) recognize a similar ineligibility for copyright for reproductive photographs of two-dimensional public domain works.
So if you copy a NASA photo and offer it as RF, you don't really have a copyright. Your version is unprotected.
Proper attribution to the author or source of a work, even if it is in the public domain, is still required to avoid plagiarism.
One thing someone else brought up is, is this fraud to sell a license for something that isn't protected? Or in a way, claim a copyright for something that's Public Domain. Interesting question.
What is sufficient human creativity... modification or alteration to make an image yours or mine and we can copyright the modified file?
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