<P> Medical images created in the United Kingdom will normally be protected by copyright due to "the high level of skill, labour and judgement required to produce a good quality x-ray, particularly to show contrast between bones and various soft tissues". The Society of Radiographers believe this copyright is owned by employer (unless the radiographer is self - employed--though even then their contract might require them to transfer ownership to the hospital). This copyright owner can grant certain permissions to whoever they wish, without giving up their ownership of the copyright . So the hospital and its employees will be given permission to use such radiographic images for the various purposes that they require for medical care . Physicians employed at the hospital will, in their contracts, be given the right to publish patient information in journal papers or books they write (providing they are made anonymous). Patients may also be granted permission to "do what they like with" their own images . </P> <P> The Cyber Law in Sweden (pg. 96) states: "Pictures can be protected as photographic works or as photographic pictures . The former requires a higher level of originality; the latter protects all types of photographs, also the ones taken by amateurs, or within medicine or science . The protection requires some sort of photographic technique being used, which includes digital cameras as well as holograms created by laser technique . The difference between the two types of work is the term of protection, which amounts to seventy years after the death of the author of a photographic work as opposed to fifty years, from the year in which the photographic picture was taken ." </P> <P> Medical imaging may possibly be included in the scope of "photography", similarly to a U.S. statement that "MRI images, CT scans, and the like are analogous to photography ." </P>

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