copyright of orbital elements?
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Posted by K Wright on November 06, 1999 at 13:07:07:
According to the Minor Planet Center, collections
of orbital elements are copyrighted , whereas the
individual orbital elements are not. This distinction
is consistent with the usual ruling that it is the
form of a publication that is copyrightable, not
the information actually contained in the publication. Do you all agree that an astronomical discovery is not intellectual property. I do not think that anyone would have any objection to educational or scientific use of there discovery, but what about the company that is using this information to fly a space probe to an asteroid and claim it a their corporate property ?
Is a astronomical discovery intellectual property?
I do not think that anyone would have any objection
to educational or scientific use of their discovery,
but what about the company that is using this
information to fly a space probe to an asteroid and
claim it a their corporate property ?
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