National Geogrpahic used to hold image rights Mosaic
NASA fundamentally blew it by not commercially licensing 1 day exclusivity for the rover images.
There are now multiple groups of amateurs attempting to stitch together commercial projects, all of whom have no idea of the actual owenreship of MER publication rights.
Further, by not licensing 1 day exclusive rights, NASA falied to establish the commercial rover market, for without those results private concerns will hve little idea as to what the market actually is.
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