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Proprietary Aspects Of Commercial Remote-Sensing Imagery, Patrick A. Salin

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This remote-sensing imagery copyright issue will be addressed in two parts: First, the specific aspects of remote-sensing imagery will be assessed in terms of international protection as compared to other space activities having a literary or intellectual content, with a direct and immediate commercial impact. Second, the specific copyright provisions of several bilateral agreements will be scrutinized in a comparative approach and the merits of each of them will be assessed against those of the others. The terms "pictures" and "signals" will be used indistinc- tively in order to identify the same physical elements, i.e. the bits or information elements …