Enforcing copyright law could potentially disrupt patient care, innovation and prevent the holding of research, but using the open source license instead can prevent the problem, according to doctors-a good one at the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Medical Center-and a law degree at UC Hastings College of Law.
“For a long time, doctors have been able to ignore copyrights, but that changed dramatically,” said John Newman, MD, PhD, UCSF and SFVAMC.
“The implementation of the copyright is making a threat to basic medical care,” said Robin Feldman, j.d., Professor of law and legal Director and Bioscience project at UC Hastings.
They discussed the issue in the “perspective” in the December issue of 29 New England Journal of Medicine.
The incident prompted an analysis of Newman and the removal of internet Feldman’s is Sweet 16, clinical assessment tool available is used by doctors to screen patients for cognitive issues. Tool taken down due to a number of lawsuits by the creator of a similar tool called the Mini-Mental State examination (MMSE).