I see your point though. It’s all about marketing. And in this capitalist economy that’s sucking us all dry, it should be a law at least to credit the govt in a meaningful and reasonable way, so awareness is raised about govt programs and features.
That tax dollars contribute to perfecting a product that, ultimately, mines the tax payers is just sad. And that people don’t know about it compounds it.
Even more so as these multi national corporations are always trying hard to destroy the little things in life by, I don’t know- lobbying against pro-consumer laws.
Needs to be a change so that government-funded stuff is free to use for non-commercial purposes, but anyone using it for commercial purposes has to pay a licensing fee.
One case a few years back, a TV station filed a DMCA takedown notice against another site that had posted footage that was frame-by-frame identical to a clip on one of their news broadcasts. The “pirated” footage? Footage from the Mars rover. The site they filed the takedown notice against? NASA.
I don’t see why we should pay a fee to use the works commercially when, by participating in this country’s society, we already pay the fee to use it through taxes. We pay the government to make these materials for our free use.
The news station thing is stupid, and has no legs to stand on, legally speaking. It’d just be thrown out when it’s fought.
I see your point though. It’s all about marketing. And in this capitalist economy that’s sucking us all dry, it should be a law at least to credit the govt in a meaningful and reasonable way, so awareness is raised about govt programs and features.
That tax dollars contribute to perfecting a product that, ultimately, mines the tax payers is just sad. And that people don’t know about it compounds it.
Even more so as these multi national corporations are always trying hard to destroy the little things in life by, I don’t know- lobbying against pro-consumer laws.
Needs to be a change so that government-funded stuff is free to use for non-commercial purposes, but anyone using it for commercial purposes has to pay a licensing fee.
One case a few years back, a TV station filed a DMCA takedown notice against another site that had posted footage that was frame-by-frame identical to a clip on one of their news broadcasts. The “pirated” footage? Footage from the Mars rover. The site they filed the takedown notice against? NASA.
Incredible, what stupidity. Idiocracy is a documentary…
I don’t see why we should pay a fee to use the works commercially when, by participating in this country’s society, we already pay the fee to use it through taxes. We pay the government to make these materials for our free use.
The news station thing is stupid, and has no legs to stand on, legally speaking. It’d just be thrown out when it’s fought.
Because using it commercially means making money off government resources.