[okfn-discuss] copyright a visualization

Thu Sep 19 16:56:06 UTC 2013

Any visualization is copyrightable, at least those created in the US, not created by the US govt.

The owners would be the organization which employed the people who made the image, AND the person who was scanned.

To be safe, permission should be obtained from both of the above.

Gene

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On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 7:12 AM PDT Lane Rasberry wrote:

>What is the copyright status of technically created visualizations? I am
>asking this especially in the context of machine-generated medical data
>visualizations, which could include ECG lines or things like X-rays and CT
>scans. Some of us are having a conversation about this on Wikipedia now. We
>do not know if these visualizations are copyrightable and if so, who would
>own the copyright.
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>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Computed_tomography_of_human_brain_-_large.png
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>This conversation happens several times a year on Wikipedia and we have not
>found conclusion after years of talking about this. As a health educator I
>feel that having clear guidelines for the circumstances under which medical
>images can be shared is essential for publishing medical images and
>therefore to teaching health care providers.
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>I have no proposal myself for how I wish things to be, but when there is a
>proposal, I would like to pass it around OKFN to see if anyone would like
>to join in making an assertion of best practices. We would like for the
>images to be freely shared somehow in a legal way.
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>Anyone who has something to contribute to the Wikipedia discussion would be
>welcome. About 15 people are participating now and many more are following.
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>Thanks,
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>On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:07 
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>Lane Rasberry
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>lane at bluerasberry.com