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>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 htt

• tzs 4y ago
  Good 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.