<story><title>Who owns the copyright to my medical images? (2018)</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/who-owns-the-copyright-to-my-medical-images/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andix</author><text>In my country in Europe the solution is quite easy: I have the right to get all papers and images from my doctors within 10 years of creation.&lt;p&gt;But I have to pay the doctor the expenses, if there is some work involved (like burning a CD or buying a flash drive - bc of security reasons they don’t let you connect yours, you need to buy a new one).&lt;p&gt;If you have some kind of 3d images (also dentists create them nowadays), there is usually some kind of licensed viewer software on the disk, where you can view just your own images. And as far as I know, the doctors don’t have to pay a license fee for it. It’s included with their software. And it is a feature they need, to comply with the law, that they have to give images to the patients upon request.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LosWochosWeek</author><text>&amp;gt; In my country in Europe the solution is quite easy: I have the right to get all papers and images from my doctors within 10 years of creation.&lt;p&gt;This doesn&amp;#x27;t answer the question in the article tho. The question isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;Who has the rights to a copy of my medical images&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Who owns the copyright to my medical images&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;To answer that question, you&amp;#x27;d first have to find out if your medical images are even protected by copyright in the first place. The answer to this question depends wholly on the picture itself.&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s say a medical image of yours is indeed protected by copyright, then -- even in your country in Europe (regardless of which country it actually is) -- the copyright holder is the person who took the image. Not you. It may very well be that in your country this copyright is restricted by other laws (i.e. Persönlichkeitsrecht in Germany).</text></comment>
<story><title>Who owns the copyright to my medical images? (2018)</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/who-owns-the-copyright-to-my-medical-images/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andix</author><text>In my country in Europe the solution is quite easy: I have the right to get all papers and images from my doctors within 10 years of creation.&lt;p&gt;But I have to pay the doctor the expenses, if there is some work involved (like burning a CD or buying a flash drive - bc of security reasons they don’t let you connect yours, you need to buy a new one).&lt;p&gt;If you have some kind of 3d images (also dentists create them nowadays), there is usually some kind of licensed viewer software on the disk, where you can view just your own images. And as far as I know, the doctors don’t have to pay a license fee for it. It’s included with their software. And it is a feature they need, to comply with the law, that they have to give images to the patients upon request.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>prepend</author><text>This seems pretty dumb and an excuse for doctors to have expensive systems to retrieve and disburse records.&lt;p&gt;It should be near zero to deliver these records. Or at least marginally zero.&lt;p&gt;I’d rather records be free electronically and let healthcare providers plan for this.&lt;p&gt;Having costs discourages information sharing, I think.</text></comment>