Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
We will need to do a search to determine if we
have other images from
this site as well. The error was due to the assumption that if it is
on the Nasa site, and is a picture from space, it is in the public
domain.
In a brief spot-check of 30 NASA images, no others were from SeaWiFS,
so if there are any others, they seem to be in a small minority. It's
hard to check for them though, as they come from various NASA sites
under the company's agreement with NASA, and not from a separate
SeaWiFS site. There is a
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov, but the only
references we have to that site are external links, not images. So
I'm guessing we're okay.
There was actually one more from SeaWiFS, uploaded by the same user, who
was able to provide the source on a third one that seemed questionable.
The copyrighted one that needs to be removed is:
It didn't occur to me until people started tracking down the Black Sea
image, but I'm guessing this one is also uploaded and used on other
Wikipedias.
--Michael Snow
