Information is exchanged in communities. All clinical information belongs to the healthcare domain.
When clinical concept models (Archetypes) are expressed using an Open International Standard like the CEN/tc251 Archetypes, both the Archetype expression and the constituting clinical concept models are not owned in a commercial sense. Gerard -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, arts Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands T: +31 252 544896 M: +31 654 792800 On 8-jan-2006, at 10:17, Tim Churches wrote: > If the argument above - that there is a need to permanent cache or > archive copies of archetype definitions with the data which relies on > them - then all archetype definitions need to be licensed in a manner > which permits users to keep permanent copies of them. My (limited) > understanding of copyright law is that such rights are not > automatically > or implicitly granted - thus an explicit license to keep permanent > copies of archetype definitions will always be needed on every > archetype > definition. Furthermore, if an end user wants to transfer > his/her data which happens to be stored using an archetype definition > for which the copyright is held by someone else (which will usually be > the case, since end users will rarely author their own archetype > definitions, especially de novo ones), then the archetype definition > used to store the end user's data must be licensed in a way that > permits > the end user to redistribute that archetype definition to third > parties, > without the need to ask permission from the copyright holder of that > archetype definition. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20060108/845bb6ed/attachment.html>
