Commons:Deletion requests/File:PIA16873-Planck-CMB-NASA-20130321.jpg
This file was initially tagged by Huntster as Copyvio (copyvio) and the most recent rationale was: While hosted on a NASA site, image is credited to ESA, which does not release their images under a free license.
Not all material hosted on nasa.gov is owned by Nasa, as clarified in the last section of the image policy. I too think this means that this image is not PD, but it's a complicated situation for sure. TheDJ (talk) 07:24, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- FWIW - Perhaps the following NASA statements may (or may not) be relevant? - several statements seem to suggest that the image is PD unless noted - the source of the NASA image does not seem to specifically note that the image is not PD?
Licensing
This file is in the public domain because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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NASA’s Use of Third Party Media
NASA makes every attempt to use media on our web pages (e.g., graphics, artwork, sounds), provided by other parties, that is free for use or in the public domain. If you notice copyright violations on a NASA JSC web page, please contact the Web Curator. Of course, it is not our intention to use material illegally. Many items are collected from the Internet, where copyright information is often not available.
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NASA *Very Closely Associated* With The PLANCK Mission?
Planck is a European Space Agency mission, with significant participation from NASA. NASA's Planck Project Office is based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. JPL contributed mission-enabling technology for both of Planck's science instruments. European, Canadian and U.S. Planck scientists work together to analyze the Planck data.
- In Any Case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 11:57, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- NASA has a very bad habit of using Russian, ESA, and even commercial images on their sites, but in structured image databases, they are almost always appropriately credited. In general, NASA has a fairly strict way of indicating whether an image is theirs or not: if the first entity in the credit line is NASA, then the image is theirs and is release from copyright. If it is ESA, Roscosmos, a university, etc., the copyright belongs to them, even if NASA employees had some hand in its production. For this image in particular, NASA isn't credited anywhere, only ESA, and ESA strictly does not freely license their images, unless explicitly noted by them. — Huntster (t @ c) 13:30, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you *very much* for your comments - they seem to make things a bit clearer - esp re the NASA-name-first notion - Thanks again - and - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 16:42, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
- NASA has a very bad habit of using Russian, ESA, and even commercial images on their sites, but in structured image databases, they are almost always appropriately credited. In general, NASA has a fairly strict way of indicating whether an image is theirs or not: if the first entity in the credit line is NASA, then the image is theirs and is release from copyright. If it is ESA, Roscosmos, a university, etc., the copyright belongs to them, even if NASA employees had some hand in its production. For this image in particular, NASA isn't credited anywhere, only ESA, and ESA strictly does not freely license their images, unless explicitly noted by them. — Huntster (t @ c) 13:30, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Deleted: Unclear copyright status. Unless we have clear, explicit written/textual, tangible evidence indicating that this file is indeed freely licensed under a Commons compatible license, we cannot host it on Commons FASTILY (TALK) 22:30, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
