Former SETI director explains what will happen when extraterrestrials contact us

My question is: Who would own the alien signal? Would the aliens maintain copyright, SETI or the person who detects it? If SETI couldn’t claim a copyright on the alien utterance, could they claim copyright on the recording of the utterance and demand a fee for each retransmission in the same way museums demand a fee for using their photos of a work of art whose copyright has long been in the public domain?

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