On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:07 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I think this would be an excellent time for the Foundation to use those attorneys they have to render a real legal opinion as to whether this is clear or not, safe or not, etc. ...
This somewhat predates me, so I can't answer questions on it, but we did a basic legal analysis on this topic a year ago: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_of_X-Ray_Images
Luis
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:12 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
From time to time there is discussion on Commons regarding the copyright status of radiological images. As no one has any idea if they are copyrightable and on the off chance they are, no one has any idea who
would
owns the copyright, there is varying degrees of support to delete images. (possibilities for ownership include, Xray tech, patient, ordering physician, radiologist, employer which could be the hospital, health region, government)
So there are 10s of thousands of these images. They are of great educational importance. Having Commons delete them all would be a shame. Are we going to go with a copyright interpretation different than that of the rest of the publishing industry, which allow both physicians and patients to publish images? From what I remember from American law it is frowned upon to have a lawsuit just to determine a legal interpretation.
DIscussion regarding one image is here, however there have been a bunch
of
others before this.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Computed_t...
If we go with a strict interpretation the only radiological images that
would
be usable is those created by VA hospitals (maybe).