The NASA Collection

Re:The NASA Collection by mbostleman on Thursday April 30, 2015 @05:07PM (#9467653)

This is cool but does NASA get a licensing fee? If not then I'm thinking U.S. taxpayers should be getting the other 75% of the profit. The reason I ask is that I am doing a similar thing in my home except that the photographs I'm using don't come from the government - they come from commercial photographers and I'm pretty sure if I sold them in this manner there wouldn't be any profit left for me. If I'm missing something please set me straight.

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Re:The NASA Collection by frandroid on Thursday April 30, 2015 @05:12PM (#9467680)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the...

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Re:The NASA Collection by bisrael on Thursday April 30, 2015 @05:19PM (#9467730)

NASA is a government agency. All photos by US Government Agencies are Public Domain (meaning they have no copyright attached to them and can be used for anything free of charge).

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Re:The NASA Collection by markbnine on Thursday April 30, 2015 @05:40PM (#9467840)

NASA's reproduction guidelines: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/reproduction_gui...

The photo reselling is okay, although the astronaut photo may require Alan Bean's sign off.

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Re:The NASA Collection by kenrikm on Thursday April 30, 2015 @11:54PM (#9469284)

Any of those tax payers are free to print them, frame them and sell them. So no they should not be getting the other 75% of the profit if they don't choose to do the work.

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Re:The NASA Collection by mbostleman on Friday May 01, 2015 @04:58PM (#9474476)

Agreed.

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