By Steven Gottlieb on May 14, 2014 @ 7:00am PDT |
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Space may be infinite, but the Internet is not — especially in regards to copyright.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield's "Space Oddity" performance on the International Space Station is officially offline at YouTube due to the expiration of a one-year licensing deal with songwriter David Bowie and his publishers.
Does this mean that our byzantine copyright laws extend to space? If we calculate time in lightyears isn't the copyright on this song long passed? Do lightyears exist? What are magnets?
Anyway. If you missed it, you missed it... unless you decide to do a Google search during which I'm quite sure you'll find lots of places to still watch it.
