Re: Are Hubble photos copyrighted?

From: Davoud (star_at_sky.net)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:21:08 -0500

linus_das@yahoo.co.uk:
> Not only that, but if you modify an image, even if that simply
> means adding a border* around it, then you may copyright the image
> as your own!
> * http://www.astrographics.com/Posters/POS0010.html

Not exactly. You may copyright the resulting work of art as a whole --
which is comprised of the Hubble image, your border, the caption that
you wrote, the way in which you use the type faces (on which someone
else holds a copyright, but which you use under license); but you may
not copyright the Hubble image.

If I buy your poster and cut away everything that you added, leaving
only the Hubble image, your copyright goes away. This would also hold
if I bought your literary masterwork and cut out the word "the." I
would be free to incorporate that word into my own best-seller.

Davoud

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