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For a usual camera and the image produced by that camera, the person who operate the camera own the copyright of the image. So, the person who operated the X-r
by ezoe 4y ago
For a usual camera and the image produced by that camera, the person who operate the camera own the copyright of the image.
So, the person who operated the X-ray machine own the copyright of X-ray images.
But... in my country, it probably doesn't have a copyright in the first place. The Japanese copyright law said copyrighted works are the one which creatively express the thought or emotion. Medical images requires no creativity. Two fully-qualified X-ray machine operators are expected to produce the same images.
- pbhjpbhj 4y ago>the person who operate the camera own the copyright of the image // Ordinarily _not_ if it's work for hire, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire
- tzs 4y agoGood point. Assuming such images are copyrightable in the US (which I have doubts about due to the limited if any creativity involved in them), work for hire probably would apply between the X-ray operator and the dental office or X-ray lab or whatever that employees them. It would be that employer that gets the copyright. The patient would not get copyright because even if one could argue successfully that the patient commissioned having the work made and successfully argue that it falls into one of the 9 categories of things that can be commissioned works for hire, commissions require a signed written instrument saying that the commission is a work for hire for them to become works for hire.