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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 08:57:06 +0700
From: Gary Hubbs <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: copyright and Landsat images <fwd>
 
At 05:05 PM 11/30/98 -0500, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:
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>Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:07:25 -0600 (CST)
>From: christopher  winters <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: copyright and Landsat images
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>Does anyone have any knowledge of the copyright issues surrounding
>Landsat data? Landsat data are in some senses products of a U.S.
>government agency hence ought to free of any kind of copyright
>restrictions, but of course these data are quite expensive and the
>agency involved has a peculiar legal status.
>
>I am particularly interested in hearing about the legality of
>allowing purchased Landsat data to be copied.
>
>Thanks in advance for any comments.
>
>Chris Winters
>University of Chicago Library
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The answer to this is : READ YOUR LICENSE AGREEMENT.
 
If you don't have the above, you are probably not a legal user of the data.
 
In general, copying is NOT permitted except for some cases such as
illustrations appearing in scholary reviews.
 
- Gary Hubbs
 
 
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