On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Joseph Chirum <[email protected]> wrote: > If it were Art, the copyright would be clearly defined. If it is technical > craft in the medical field, such images fall unto another category all > together. Any display of such images would need the patient consent to be > HIPPA compliant, or other agreement binding.
It's just not that simple, unfortunately. HIPAA applies to personally identifying information; I think it'd be easy to argue that the presumption on imagery, devoid of identifying accompanying text, is that it is de facto de-identified and thus exempt from HIPAA scrutiny. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
