[Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

[James Heilman]

My concern is that if we are going to be both super cautious and assume
that X-rays are copyrightable than we will need to get permission from all
9 potential copyright holders (ordering physician, patient, radiologist,
hospital, government, X-ray tech, machine manufacturer, software
programmer and the Queen of English in my jurisdiction, shareholders of
hospitals in other jurisdictions). This will eliminate all radiological
images from Wikipedia. Last time I wrote the Queen asking her to release
content under a CC BY SA license she didn't respond. If the Wikimedia
movement takes this stance I will go elsewhere.

-- 
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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