[MM] Associated rights to the NASA Image

Dear All,

Per my actions recorded in [1] and [2], I should advertise the Working
Group about the NASA licence for using its images and add a NASA
attribution text to the Image Annotation editor's draft [4].
The NASA copyright notification is available at [3]. In particular, they
state the following:

"- NASA materials may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by
NASA or by any NASA employee of a commercial product, service or
activity, or used in any other manner that might mislead.
 - NASA should be acknowledged as the source of its material.
 - It is unlawful to falsely claim copyright or other rights in NASA
material.
 - [...]"

and about the photography:

"Photographs are not protected by copyright unless noted. If
copyrighted, permission should be obtained from the copyright owner
prior to use. If not copyrighted, photographs may be reproduced and
distributed without further permission from NASA. If a recognizable
person appears in a photograph, use for commercial purposes may infringe
a right of privacy or publicity and permission should be obtained from
the recognizable person."

Therefore, I have modified the caption of the NASA image which is now:

"Apollo 7 Saturn rocket launch -   October, 10th 1968. Image courtesy of
NASA, available at <a href="http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/">GRIN</a>, used
with permission."

acknowledging the NASA provenance of the image. The latest version of
the Editor's Draft is available at [4], timestamp Editors' Draft $Date:
2006/03/07 09:31:23 $ $Revision: 1.150 $

Sincerely.

    Raphaël Troncy

[1] http://www.w3.org/2006/03/06-swbp-minutes.html#action14
[2] http://www.w3.org/2006/03/06-swbp-minutes.html#action15
[3] http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/copyright.html
[4] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/MM/image_annotation.html

--
Raphaël Troncy
CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science),
Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: raphael.troncy@cwi.nl & raphael.troncy@gmail.com
Tel: +31 (0)20 - 592 4093
Fax: +31 (0)20 - 592 4312
Web: http://www.cwi.nl/ins2/

Received on Tuesday, 7 March 2006 11:47:52 UTC