Delirium wrote:

Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:

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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:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Azov_sea_sat.jpg

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