NASA Images

James Grimmelmann james.grimmelmann at yale.edu
Fri Aug 6 14:43:31 EDT 2004


At 11:29 AM 8/6/2004, Sigmascape1 at cs.com wrote:
>Just curious. How are the images that NASA offers on their website 
>licensed? My assumption is that everything is Public Domain, but wanted to 
>know if anyone knew for sure.

Like all governmental works, they were never copyrighted in the first 
place.  (17 U.S.C. 105 says so explicitly.)

NASA has photo guidelines at 
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html

Basically, the photos can be freely used, but don't claim that NASA 
endorses you or use their logos without permission.

James




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