NASA blasts NFTs: Says they won't take off with its imagery

Despite a wide statement amongst degen apes that NFTs are headed to the proverbial moon, abstraction bureau NASA has revealed it volition not wide the usage of its contented and logos for instrumentality off.

This is an important clarification arsenic the US authorities agencies’ images and video contented are typically not copyright protected, and tin ordinarily beryllium freely utilized for acquisition and informative purposes successful media. (Its logos meantime are copyrighted and tin lone beryllium utilized if approved by NASA).

While the NFT assemblage continues to surge afloat steam up — with platforms specified arsenic OpenSea posting grounds monthly volumes successful January already — NASA has stated via its media usage guidelines that it does not privation for immoderate of its content to beryllium tokenized:

“Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are, successful essence, integer tokens owned by idiosyncratic arsenic a ‘one of a kind’ integer asset. NASA does not privation for its images to beryllium utilized for these purposes. It is unlawful to falsely assertion copyright oregon different rights successful NASA material.”

NASA’s logo has often been utilized for commercialized purposes specified arsenic branding connected manner items, nevertheless the bureau stated that it is incapable to o.k. of immoderate specified uses successful the NFT sphere.

“NASA is not approving immoderate merchandising applications involving Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), arsenic they are not accordant with the categories of products the Agency is approved to merchandise,” the guidelines read.

Under the guidelines acceptable retired for authorities agencies, it is not capable to o.k. merchandising oregon products successful areas specified arsenic alcohol, food, cosmetics, tobacco, underwear and technology.

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NASA has however, been indirectly progressive successful the NFT abstraction via different avenues successful the past. Cointelegraph reported astir an NFT-backed metaverse project dubbed “mars4” that built a elaborate 3D exemplary of Mars utilizing information from NASA and different abstraction agencies.