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[Adrian Midgley <dr.midgley AT homefieldsurgery.nhs.uk>]

Matt Lee wrote:

> On 18/11/05, Dr Adrian Midgley <dr.midgley AT homefieldsurgery.nhs.uk> wrote:
>  
>
> > We feel a need for a restriction, that anyone may copy and distribute,
> > but only a regsitered medical practioner may make any alteration.
> >    
> The restriction on alteration could be handled by the software itself,
> could it not? 
I was in a dot.com that tried and failed to sell a system for 
demonstrating medical qualification - I don't think we can do it, and 
there is no physical restriction on someone taking a copy of an 
article.  We specifically want colleagues to be able to do so and adapt 
while acknowledging the source. 

> Restricting the actual legal rights based on profession
> would be very difficult to enforce, I believe.
>  

It is enforced afterward - if someone wishes to argue about it if it has 
only been edited by doctors then they might have a chance, if th chain 
has been broken then the buck stops with the non-medic who edited it.

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