Originally Posted by
nasawill
Hey folks,
Sorry for the confusion here. I wrote the rule based on the Membership terms from the CCR.
From the CCR:
1.3.2 Membership – Terms and Conditions
... All members agree to accept occasional announcements pertaining to NASA related activities or offers via mail or email. Note: NASA does not sell, lend, or give-away any information about any member to sources outside of NASA (except to authorities upon demand) for any commercial purpose. Furthermore, all NASA members agree that any and all video footage and / or still photographs may be held by the NASA administration for certain purposes such as accident investigation.
In exchange for being allowed entry into a facility or access to any other location where a NASA event is taking place, all members and all attendees at NASA events agree that NASA owns and retains all rights and copyrights to all images and sound recordings obtained at NASA events, captured by any form of recording device, using any media such as (but not limited to) film, magnetic tapes, memory cards, and hard disk drives, unless superseded by written contract.
So I wrote our supplemental rule with this in mind. With that said, as far and as much as I can remember this is simply to keep 1) Really gruesome stuff from wrecks from circling which IMO is good practice and 2) Full on commercial usage without NASA consent, which I believe is standard practice in many businesses. So don’t expect me or my staff to come after your video unless it’s extremely inappropriate, or it’s filmed for non-NASA commercial use beyond the normal uses we all have for our on-board video.
Also, I've got the 2017 Supp regs posted as a news item on nasatx.com and will be sure to include it in our upcoming mass emails...