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I submitted a concept shot containing a world globe.  SS rejected it as containing a trademark or copyright.  There is no trademark or manufacturer's name visible   SS already has lots of images of political globes with labelling and marking clearly visible.    So what's the deal now?

Just trust me.  There's no manufacturer's name or logo, just the names of countries and cities.  I've been all over it.

My nautical charts are rejected for copyright/trademark at SS but accepted elsewhere.

Like cars started to be removed lately... I had many cars images removed at SS (ambulance, police cars, limousine also). This partly made me going exclusive, because all those were good sellers.

If Istock start to remove medal images one day, I'm owned!! Medals and cars were like 30% of my portfolio at SS and 60% of my sales.

Vehicle were not a good subject after all. It take 3 hours to edit for each images and now they are not even in my Istock portfolio and have been removed from SS. Sigh

As I understand it, NASA photos are in the public domain and could be used as part of a stock image.  I might be able redo this concept with a NASA photo of the earth from space.

I resubmitted my image as editorial.

Next time try "Planet earth nasa image" or something obvious like that?

Link:   http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2429



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copy paste from NASA agreement (extract)

The NASA imagery offered on NASAIMAGES.ORG is generally not copyrighted. You may use this NASA imagery for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits and Internet Web pages (personal or otherwise). This general permission does not extend to any use of the NASA insignia logo (the blue "meatball" insignia), the retired NASA logotype (the red "worm" logo) and the NASA seal (the "NASA Properties") whether or not used in conjunction with images obtained from NASAIMAGES.ORG. Notwithstanding the foregoing restriction, you may use the NASA name and the NASA initials only as indicators of the original source of the NASA imagery.

A credit line should be used in connection with the images and should read "NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org."

If the NASA images obtained from NASAIMAGES.ORG are used for commercial purposes (including advertisements or packaging), such use may not suggest, either explicitly or implicitly, that NASA endorses any commercial goods or services.

Downloading and using images from NASAIMAGES.ORG does not grant you any ownership right in the image(s) and you must not claim rights in the images.

The answer was more to point out that there are free planet Earth images that can be incorporated in RF creations. Not that people should steal NASA images and upload them "AS IS" for sale, which was being done until last year on some sites and may still be being done by some.

The world map that so many use as a background is from NASA. There has never been a rejection by any agency (that I know of) for doing this.

Should that be too complicated, go to Wikipedia:

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
In case this is not legally possible:
I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.