What license are images available in Nasa's web page?
What license are images available in Nasa's web page?
I am trying to understand Nasa's media guide license from here: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html
I think I heard some where that some of the NASA's content is under public domain. But while reading that license I am not sure anymore. I get that you are not allowed to use NASA's logo or images where invidual employees can be recognized. I also get that some of the images are not free to use and those are under copyright but those are mentioned when that is the case. There is also separate part for non-commercial use and commerical use in license/text in link above.
So is NASA actually using different license than public domain and CC0 and if I use it I cannot relicense to for example CC0. In order to use images for example my game I would need to rescale images, since I would guess that images from planets would huge.
Yes, as far as I know, all NASA images are NOT CC0 / Public Domain. That doesn't mean that none of them are, but most are not. It also depends on which NASA images you're talking about. For instance, the ESA/Hubble images are under CC-BY 4.0:
https://esahubble.org/copyright/
--Medicine StormI thought I looked for ESA picture at somepoint and some of those were not under any open license. So in short it just depends by each picture. Those ESA pictures looks nice since I am just looking to find pictures of planets of our solar system which should be under some CC license. CC-BY-4.0 is perfect.
Yep! As long as you're getting the images from https://esahubble.org/images/ they're all CC-BY 4! :D
Some of the Credit: text is kind of long, depending on the image. Just be sure to include the full text of it.
--Medicine StormEsahubble has pictures all other planets except planet Earth. But then I found this from here OGA:
https://opengameart.org/content/earth
If one searches for ESA Image license you will encounter CC-BY-SA.3.0-IGO where IGO stands for Intergovermental Organization. Not sure how that differences from regular CC-BY-SA-3.0 but probably somehow, why it would have different license otherwise.
But anyway I think I found enough pictures with correct license to use in my game to make Sol there. So thanks MedicineStorm!
Good luck on your game. :)
I know that the Library of Congress doesn't allow users from sactioned countries to use its stuff, so the IGO may be something along those lines, meaning that you couldn't use them in Iran or Russia, for instance.
I'm curious what that is. Do you have a link to the page where it mentions CC-BY-SA 3.0-IGO?
--Medicine StormFor NASA hubble images, https://hubblesite.org/copyright says "Unless otherwise specifically stated, no claim to copyright is being asserted by STScI and material on this site may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA's contract." (Although acknowledgement is requested.) I clicked a few hubble images on that site, and the "permissions" links to that same URL https://hubblesite.org/copyright .
The wording at https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html seems rather confusing, saying NASA images etc are "generally are not subject to copyright in the United States" and giving allowed examples such as news outlets and text-book authors, but this is under the non-commercial section (even though such usage would be commercial!) Although the commercial section seems to cover other issues like logos, employees etc maybe?
As noted above, the copyright is different if Hubble images have come from the ESA (the catch being, even if images from NASA were in the public domain, not all images from Hubble are from NASA).
In general I'd say you should check the source of the particular image rather than assuming anything blanket from NASA (because e.g. it might have had non-NASA involvement or some other reason why copyright applies).
I see the IGO licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/ , not something I'd come across before. It looks like a "ported" version, similar to other country-specific ports?
Ah, I see! "Inter Governmental Oranization". Interesting. Good find, marko. Thanks.
--Medicine Storm