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<div>Hi Daureen,</div>
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<div>We have explored this topic as well. Based off what you have written, it would appear that for these images, and the photos, copyright could apply. The question of the rights holder would depend if the images/photos were captured as work-for-hire or not.
If not, the person who took the photo would be the rights holder. Since US government publications cannot be copyrighted, it may stand that the photographs (funded by NSF) cannot either. This may be splitting hairs, as I imagine this grant was administered
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<div>Likewise, you would want to secure the rights for the CAT scans that were provided by labs from the labs themselves. One could try to make an argument that the CAT scans are actually data and no creative spirit went into their production. This is a topic
of lengthy discussion on Wikimedia Commons: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/Xrays">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/Xrays</a> I imagine that the lab that produced the image will probably
claim some sort of IP status so, in my opinion, it’s worth negotiating the rights even if there is no legal footing to protect them.</div>
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<div>All that said, as Amanda noted the safest route is to confer with legal and see what their approach is. I usually try to approach them with a “This is what I would like to try doing, do you see any red flags?” and see what they say. </div>
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<div>I would love to know what other people have done in similar situations! </div>
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<div>All the best,</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Daureen Nesdill <<a href="mailto:daureen.nesdill@utah.edu">daureen.nesdill@utah.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"Research Data, Access and Preservation" <<a href="mailto:rdap@asis.org">rdap@asis.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 5:38 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:rdap@mail.asis.org">rdap@mail.asis.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:rdap@mail.asis.org">rdap@mail.asis.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Rdap] FW: copyright and data<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Amanda,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Your questions also need to be addressed – but for my scenarios:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The photos are of an inanimate object – no people pets, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The CAT scans are of alligators, crocodiles and caimans – no humans. I’m actually attempting to determine if I can start a collection of these scans from across the country so threatened and endangered species
do not have to be rescanned. We have scanning facilities on campus that scan zoo animals when needed for health reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Daureen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> Rinehart, Amanda K. [<a href="mailto:rinehart.64@osu.edu">mailto:rinehart.64@osu.edu</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Daureen Nesdill<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: copyright and data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Daureen, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m afraid I can’t answer your question, but I’d love to know what others answer. We run into this sort of thing quite a bit and haven’t yet come to a consensus on it. My additional concerns for this type of
data are: 1) Is it personal health information pulled from medical files, and if so, is it subject to HIPAA? 2) It was definitely a human subject initially – does the IRB data section specify whether this will be shared or not? And, 3) Could it be considered
personally identifiable information (not knowing that much about CT scans, does it seem like you could identify someone with this photo? This topic comes up with the sharing of DNA samples sometimes.)? When I do run into something as sticky as this, I usually
send it to our legal department and eventually an answer comes back, but there is often a lot of speculation about whether the answer can be generalized. I’d love to know what others do. Thank you for posing the question – it’s nice to know I’m not the only
one!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Amanda Rinehart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"> Rdap [<a href="mailto:rdap-bounces@asis.org">mailto:rdap-bounces@asis.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Daureen Nesdill<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 30, 2014 11:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:rdap@mail.asis.org">rdap@mail.asis.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Rdap] copyright and data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Got a sticky question here.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have CAT scans and photos coming in to deposited in our IR. Photos were taken by the researcher. CAT scans were taken by various labs and provided to the researcher for their use in researcher. Some of the scans were done at the Univ
of Utah.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How have you handled the copyright question?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Data is not copyrighted, but these are images and I’m being told may fall under copyright.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the photo example I’m assuming that the researcher owns CR because he took the photos as part of an NSF grant.<o:p></o:p></p>
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