"Copyright protection is thus unavailable to unenhanced data ... Predictably, EOSAT does not attempt to copyright unenhanced Landsat data" - That's a reference to data from a public satellite.
"Every image created from Google Earth using satellite data provided by Google Earth is a copyrighted map. Any derivative from Google Earth is made from copyrighted data which, under United States Copyright Law, may not be used except under the licenses Google provides"
If this is not correct you should edit it accordingly.
I said, "I think it's crystal clear under US copyright law that on-nadir satellite images are not copyrightable." Google's claim to own copyright in the output of Google Maps or Google Earth may or may not be correct, but either way it's irrelevant, because those are not on-nadir satellite photos, and my claim was specifically scoped to on-nadir satellite photos (and US copyright law). I've cited three judicial precedents to support that claim; you have a weak argument about one of those precedents that suggests you don't understand it, and even the 30-year-old law review article you chose to support your position specifically disclaims the claim you're making, in the case it discusses, which is indeed a public satellite.
Google Maps and Google Earth output are not on-nadir satellite photos. They are composite images produced by an elaborate production pipeline drawing on many sets of data and possibly enough human creativity to produce a copyrightable work. That's a question for a court to decide, not Google or Wikipedia. It seems clear that if their results are found to be copyrightable, it will not be due to the satellite photos that some of them draw on.
The single example that you were able to find referencing photography was specifically scoped to artistic works. None of those cases back up the claim that "on-nadir satellite images are not copyrightable".
If it were "crystal clear" you'd be able to find a more specific example, which you can't.
None of the sources you provided attempt to claim that raw, unmodified satellite photos are copyrightable. They all have to do with "enhanced" or "watermarked" photos. There is no question that Google owns the copyright and trademark to their logo, and adding it to an image will allow them to enforce their copyright on its distribution. Additionally, Google has done processing on the photos to remove clouds, add roads, city names, and a lot of other info.
But a claim that a raw, uncreative, unprocessed, mechanically produced photo is subject to copyright would be a major exemption from the requirement that anything copyrightatlbe be significantly creative. Unless you have an actual case involving an unprocessed satellite image, it's pretty safe to assume they are not copyrighted.
Bridgeman is specifically about imaging artworks. You're taking it way out of context. Here's the summary from wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel...:
"...exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be protected by copyright in the United States because the copies lack originality."
That has nothing to do with satellite images. If you disagree I would ask you to cite jurisprudence or legislation.
You haven't addressed the fact that google/bing/any other GIS tool specifically put copyrights on their satellite images.
From the wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth:
"Every image created from Google Earth using satellite data provided by Google Earth is a copyrighted map. Any derivative from Google Earth is made from copyrighted data which, under United States Copyright Law, may not be used except under the licenses Google provides"
If this is not correct you should edit it accordingly.