[Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

[Mathias Schindler]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:06 PM, James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Out of the 9 categories of potential copyright holders, we should be
able to eliminate patients as they are not an active part of the
creation process and there is no transfer of copyright to them.

Mathias