<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chii</author><text>&amp;gt; the copyright holder is the person who took the image.&lt;p&gt;only if you didn&amp;#x27;t contract that person to take the image for you. So it makes sense, imho, that the person who paid for the image to be taken to own the copyright.</text><parent_chain><item><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></item><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><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>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wyldfire</author><text>&amp;gt; the copyright holder is the person who took the image. Not you.&lt;p&gt;But it could be interesting to think about whether a dental X-ray is &amp;quot;your likeness&amp;quot;.  So even if the dentist holds the copyright, their copyright is burdened&amp;#x2F;encumbered by the fact that it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;picture of you&amp;quot;.  Unless you sign away that right in exchange for treatment, the copyright might not be that useful.</text><parent_chain><item><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></item><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><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>