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What I'm curious about is how you distinguish this from ordinary photography. What sets an X-ray apart? For starters, without knowing, I suspect it is not nece
by YPPH 4y ago
What I'm curious about is how you distinguish this from ordinary photography. What sets an X-ray apart?
For starters, without knowing, I suspect it is not necessary that you "preview" the result before taking the photograph, given this wasn't viable with early photography.
It could be the fact that you can't see the underlying bone structure etc, whereas someone taking an ordinary photograph can look at what they will depict. By this logic, someone who closes their eyes, spins around and photographs something without any idea of what would result may not have used intellectual effort in creating the photograph, since they did not see the subject. On this logic you might also question whether a visually impaired person could ever own copyright in an image.
Perhaps it is the predefined nature of what is being depicted. Imagine an autopsy room where the deceased is placed on a trolley and photographs are taken by a mortician from predefined angles. To make it even easier, imagine the cameras are already prepositioned and the mortician simply clicks a button. I wonder if copyright would subsist in the photographs that result from this scenario.