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Copyrights To Reach Deep Space

Posted by samzenpus on from the lawyers-in-space dept.

bs0d3 writes "Voyager 1 is expected to reach interstellar space soon. It will be the first made made object to cross the heliosphere, which is the final stop in our solar system. Voyager 1, famously contained a gold phonographic record. The record was filled with iconic sights, images, and sounds from earth, and the prevailing message, "we come in peace". The disc was [composed] by a man named Carl Sagan, and it contained many pieces of art, songs, and images, that are all copy-written. According to NASA, 'Most of the material they used was copyrighted by the creators/owners and Sagan had to get copyright releases in order to assemble the original record. Subsequently, Warner Multimedia was able to obtain copyright releases for the 1992 version of "Murmurs of Earth" .. Unfortunately, the book and CDROM are no longer being published and are hard to find as a set.'"

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  1. Klingons by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Say piss on your your copyrights........

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  2. Re:Do the editors even look at the submissions? by phaedrus5001 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, I'm starting to think that on Slashdot, the word 'editor' has a far different meaning than the one I'm familiar with...

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  3. What do you call a thousand lawyers... by Bonker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...asphyxiating in the cold reaches of interstellar space?

    Money well spent.

    I hope that in centuries to come, our descendants will look back on copyright and 'intellecutal property' as a stupid little social experiment that became a painful learning experience.

    'Man, I'm glad we don't to go through that crap. Can you believe they had to PAY for data?!'

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  4. Re:Do the editors even look at the submissions? by geezer+nerd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In many different forms of printed material I see today, it seems quite apparent that "editor" means "spell checker program". I rarely see misspelling typos any more, but I see many, many instances of misused words that are correct, well-defined words, just not suitable for the context in which they appear. The odd instances in this article are of that type.