Can You Copyright the Sun?

The Latest Author Attack of 2023

Anne Marble

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2023 refused to end without another author behaving badly. This new scandal involves copyright, but it’s really about targeting an innocent author.

The NASA title for this photo is “A corona mass ejection erupts from our sun on August 31, 2012.” This is a color photograph of our sun showing incredible detail and bright orange and yellow and dark red colors.
Our Sun. (Source: Photo by NASA on Unsplash.)

No! You can’t copyright the sun. Just as you can’t copyright the concept of characters powered by the sun. That should be obvious.

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Anne Marble

I’m a writer and a copy editor with experience in editing science and engineering articles. Click Lists to find my most popular articles. And hidden gems.