Someone further down the thread linked a piece about x-rays, but in general I&#x27;d suspect that an MRI or other visual produced by medical scanning technology would not be copyrightable in the first place; copyright does require a certain amount of creative effort in the production of the copyrighted work. The important case here, if you want to look up the history, is <i>Feist v. Rural Telephone</i>, which dealt with the (non-)copyrightability of a list of telephone numbers.