Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover

An anonymous reader writes "Astronaut Bruce McCandless is suing Dido for her album cover that uses a famous NASA photograph of a tiny, tiny, tiny McCandless floating in space. McCandless doesn't own the copyright on the photo, so he's claiming it's a violation of his publicity rights ... except that he's so tiny in the photo, it's not like anyone's going to recognize him."

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Re:That's why he's suing,so people will know it's

[MightyMartian]

I'm assuming the picture was taken with NASA equipment on a NASA spacecraft. In other words, it's the US Government's picture. I don't really see how he has grounds to sue, particularly as nothing in the picture at all can be said to show his identity.