Image talk:Plasma-ranges.gif
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Though this work may have been created by a person affiliated w/ the US Gov. that alone does not make it free. The image appears in the copyrighted science publication "Astrophysics and Space Science" and thus is unfree. --Deglr6328 03:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- You are incorrect. A free image remains free even if used in a copyrighted publication because the agent that used the image did not alter it in any way. If a derivative work had been created, then that would generate a new copyright. howcheng {chat} 00:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)`
- Um no. the image was published within a copyrighted work. that is where it was first published. --Deglr6328 00:20, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
- If the image as it stands now is based on a public domain image but was altered and then copyrighted, you would be correct (please let me know if this is the case). However, I can't take a NASA image and publish it as-is in my magazine and then call it copyrighted. The image is still the same as when it was released by NASA. howcheng {chat} 06:29, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
- Um no. the image was published within a copyrighted work. that is where it was first published. --Deglr6328 00:20, 30 June 2006 (UTC)