David Guest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, Kuangie is rather unlikely to bring a law suit against you for > > such > > use, but it is the principle I am concerned about here: if the creator > > of a coding system designed to represent medical or other knowledge > > wants it to be widely used, then s/he really does have to provide a > > proper license to allow that to happen under copyright law - otherwise > > people who do use it are in a legal limbo. And not all creators of > > medical coding systems are as nice as Kuangie. > > > > I'm thinking of going back to paper.
Doesn't matter, even if you write down Kuangie's codes on a 3M Post-it note and pass them to your collegue, you still, strictly speaking, need a license to absolve you from your obligation to observe the protections of the Copyright Act. And the new Copyright Act, if it is passed as it stands, is even worse in this respect. I know that I am being pedantic, but it is a bit of a shame if people put in a lot of effort capturing medical data in encoded form, and then try to share that data only to learn that the lack of adequate licensing of the codes involved prevents them from legally doing so. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
