Wouldn't this be a conversation best held on Wikimedia Commons rather than this mailing list?
Thanks, Mike On 17 Sep 2013, at 22:32, Joseph Chirum <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Perhaps if all parties are in agreement, the image can be entered into the > Public Domain. The goal of this would be to aid researchers and scientists. > The images cannot be stuck in limbo forever, so by setting them into the > public domain, they become non-copyrightable if HIPPA is exempt, thus > withholding personally identifying information of the images. > > > ________________________________ > From: Nathan <[email protected]> > To: Joseph Chirum <[email protected]>; Wikimedia Mailing List > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:02 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images > > > 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> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
