Development of Creative Commons licenses

[James Grimmelmann <james.grimmelmann AT yale.edu>]

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