That is why Voyager 1 has a disk with pictures and Voyager 2 is following with a suponea from RightHaven to 'Alien Doe' for rights violations :-)
While I don't doubt for a second that should our probe come into the possesion of another intelligent species, they would publish copies of the pictures on their version of the Internet, as they aren't signatories of out international copyright treaties they wouldn't be culpable, however you and I, should we make say a really cool t-shirt with these designs on them, well we would be violating someone's copyright.
Someday, assuming someone finds the probe before it gets sucked into a black hole. It will be a really interesting story.
While I don't doubt for a second that should our probe come into the possesion of another intelligent species, they would publish copies of the pictures on their version of the Internet, as they aren't signatories of out international copyright treaties they wouldn't be culpable, however you and I, should we make say a really cool t-shirt with these designs on them, well we would be violating someone's copyright.
Someday, assuming someone finds the probe before it gets sucked into a black hole. It will be a really interesting story.