USA has some differences with regard to registering copyright.
But again the issue of jurisdiction appears. Maybe in the originating country all is as you say, but in the country in which the photo was actually taken the law says it is 100% the photographer's copyright? Or
100% the employer's?It could be argued that while on board a spacecraft whatever laws apply to ships should apply. But would this also hold while walking on the surface of the moon?
Well Buzz claimed that they were his pictures (the ones he took).
He had no idea how valuable they could be. "The world had just had it's biggest ever party and we [Buzz, Armstrong and Collins] were not invited"
You could. You could also be wrong. :P
An orbit, using Wikipedia's easily found words is "the gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space". Seems pretty clear to me that a satellite going around a planet in a circle once every 24 hours is indeed in orbit.
If the object happens to be turning at the same speed - well, then the orbit is geostationary.
Andy
That reminds me of a fat bird I once shagged.
I was pissed and I cannot remember if I got into orbit or indeed if did a complete circuit.
ISTR getting into local geostationary orbit before I made my landing entry.
splashdown?
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, "Bob Eager" writ:
OK Bob, That's the Space Shuttle. I knew it wasn't the Apollo but I was interested in where you had got the info.
I did begin to wonder if it was the Shuttle....it's a long time since I read it and I threw out my old copies of SEN about ten years ago.
A soft landing with a chute?
No, not him; he doesn't arrange for people to come to the dinners, does he? It's some other person in Pontefract, or wherever. The other person is likely to be of the geeky persuasion, ykwim, and has the organising and promotion ability of a lemur.
If your own camera, yes. See below, though.
If he pays for the film/camera/digital electrons you take it on. It has to be by arrangement with him.
Otoh, some employment contracts might specify that any pictures you take on company time belong to the company - if I took a world-selling Press pic of an incident in Donegal, on company time, the company could go whistle.
US taxpayers paid for the NASA pics, so any use by a US entity is pretty much fair game - to an extent.
UK taxpayers didn't pay anything towards the pics, but NASA is ok with them being used for personal or illustration/educational purposes outside the US. I don't know what the situation is with say, a UK /German company using a moonshot pic - it has been done plenty of times, so there's a procedure in place, long ago.
Not really. You CAN register copyright of an image (since we're talking about pics, here), but if you don't, the simple copyright that exists in the taking of the image still exists. Just that registering it avoids future arguments.
Oh you mean him in charge of organising these events:-). He is a weapons grade bell end.
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