Where is the onwiki discussion about this? I could find '[1]' Or a wikipedia page that describes the copyright status of imagery of DSOs?
John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Sep 15, 2012 1:25 PM, "とある白い猫" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not seeking legal advice. I am asking the pursuit of the issue. I am > not a US citizen so I do not have a congress person to contact. The laws > governing copyright can be amended to address the issue of deep space > objects (DSO). I do not expect a result next week, I merely want the issue > to enter into an agenda of some sort. If the Foundation is going to take > the lead, this probably would only be possible through a board decision. In > such a case I want to work with people to come up with such a draft > proposal to the board. > > I realize this is an unusual request but there seems to be a lack of > clarity on this issue[1]. Argument is that copyright can be an issue since > not every organization observing or assisting NASA's observations are > PD-USgov compatible. We may be forced to permanently delete all deep space > objects as a result. > > I'd like to provide a short technical explanation why copyright of deep > space objects or DSOs (objects outside of the solar system) are > meaningless. For ordinary photographs copyright is determined by factors > such as lighting, perspective, exposure and other such settings that > creates a different image of the same object. You can distinguish the > difference between a daylight photo and an evening photo. > > With deep space objects however, even the stellar parallax[2] has a very > small value. The closest object outside of the solar system is 4.24 light > years (268,136 AU's) away. The semi-major axis of earth is about 1AUs. The > difference in perspective is like looking at a 2cm (width of a nickel) wide > object 5.3km (3.29 miles) away and the perspective difference is switching > left eye to the right eye. We lack scientific instruments to even detect a > stellar parallax for objects much further. In other words our perspective > of the nearest star and beyond is more or less constant and the objects > themselves look the same for hundreds of years. > > So any photo of a deep space object I or someone else takes from the > solar system will look identical regardless of when and where on earth I > take it within multiple lifetimes. I think this can bring legal precedent > for us to either disregard any copyright claim or at least pursue lawmakers > in congress to amend the copyright law to make an exception in the law. > People who worked with congress such as Neil Degrasse Tyson could be > consulted to this end. Also international treaties[3] can be consulted to > this end as copyrighting photos of deep space objects could be interpreted > as an unfair exploitation of resources. > > I realize this reads like something out of Star Trek but this is growing > to be quite a problem as we see more and more weird copyright claims even > when dealing with NASA which traditionally had a PD-USgov mentality. NASA > regularly contracts its more recent projects and to be fair we do not know > how NASA contracts these projects which could potentially lead > to legitimate copyright claims in the future. > > > [1]: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Potential_deletion_of_all_deep_space_objects > > [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_parallax > > [3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_law#International_treaties > > -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >
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