On 20 August 2012 12:08, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > A question about copyright, who owns the copyright on Xrays and are they > even copyrightable? I have uploaded a few of them and no one seems to know > the answer. I guess the options would be:
Why is it any different to any other work created during employment? The employer owns the copyright in almost all those cases. The client (patient, HMO, whatever) only owns it is there is a specific contractual agreement to that effect, and I can't see why there would be. It's the same as when pay a professional photographer to take nice photos of you - they own the copyright unless you explicitly buy it off them. In countries with public healthcase, the employer may be a public body and there may be different rules (are x-rays taken by NHS radiographers under Crown Copyright?). There may also be special rules in some countries regarding medical records, although I wouldn't expect them to remove the copyright (just give a statutory license for certain uses). _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
