New subject: Copyright on Xrays

20 Aug 2012

OK, so the moderation of this mailing list appears to be broken (surely such emails should
at least be held for approval by a moderator?). But please see my previous email (which I
sent after hitting the 'reply' button)…

Thanks,
Mike

On 20 Aug 2012, at 21:19, wikimedia-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:

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 From: Michael Peel &lt;email(a)mikepeel.net&gt;
 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright on Xrays
 Date: 20 August 2012 21:36:07 BST
 To: Wikimedia Mailing List &lt;wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;
 Cc: Kat Walsh &lt;kat(a)wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, Jeffery Nichols &lt;jnichols(a)wikimedia.ca&gt;

 This sounds like a question to ask on Wikimedia Commons, rather than on this mailing list
- particularly since the Commons community is the one that needs to monitor and maintain
such a legal position! Also asking the question at the talk page of
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy might be a good idea.

 Thanks,
 Mike

 On 20 Aug 2012, at 12:08, James Heilman &lt;jmh649(a)gmail.com&gt; 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:

 1) They are in the public domain
 https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Casebook#Radiograph_.28X-Ray.29 and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Kingdom#Works_elig…

 2) The X ray tech who took the image
 3) The person / institution who paid to have the image taken
 a) The HMO or patient if in the USA
 b) The government if in many parts of the world
 4) The doctor who ordered the image
 5) The doctor who read the image
 6) The hospital / shareholders of the hospital who owns the equipment
 7) All of the above / some of the above / none of the above

 Would be good to have a legal position on this.
 -- 
 James Heilman
 MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

 The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
 www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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