researchers) are generally granted a royalty-free license” (emphasis added ). The royalty-free licence comes with some clauses (the following comes from the interRAI website): the instrument is not to be changed substantially (excepting individual identifiers and demographics), although additional items can be added only licensed translations can be used the instrument will not be incorporated into products to be sold to or paid for by others the organization will make appropriate efforts to inform others of the copyright status of the instrument interRAI's logo and copyright notice are to appear on the form and any other publication authors, author institutions, and translators (as appropriate) are to be acknowledged in any document where authors would usually be listed electronic data from use of the instrument are to be shared with interRAI, subject to existing laws on confidentiality and data use. A report written for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services highlights issues with respect to the RAI/MDS are complicated because the “IP assessment instrument and data set have always been considered to be in the public domain, but only in the United States. Beyond United States borders, interRAI claims rights to version 2.0 of the RAI and MDS, and use of the RAI/MDS requires a license agreement with interRAI. IP issues are further complicated by the fact that the 1995 edition of the user's manual for version 2.0, written for and with HCFA, has been copyrighted by interRAI with the U.S. Copyright Office, which is unusual for a work considered to be in the public domain” p11. The other instruments for assessing people across the continuum of care, for example home care, assisted living, palliative care, and acute care, appear to be solely the intellectual property of interRAI, and their use subject to licensing agreements with interRAI. InterRAI has promoted the complete set of assessment instruments as suitable for assessing all post acute care patients. The report highlights an issue about the intellectual property of scales based on the interRAI. Copyright information on the interRAI web site includes the statement: "The scales, algorithms, and case-mix measures based on these assessment instruments cannot be copyrighted and are thus available to everyone (although the individual items on which they are based are usually copyrighted).” The report argues that
researchers) are generally granted a royalty-free license” (emphasis added ). The royalty-free licence comes with some clauses (the following comes from the interRAI website): the instrument is not to be changed substantially (excepting individual identifiers and demographics), although additional items can be added only licensed translations can be used the instrument will not be incorporated into products to be sold to or paid for by others the organization will make appropriate efforts to inform others of the copyright status of the instrument interRAI's logo and copyright notice are to appear on the form and any other publication authors, author institutions, and translators (as appropriate) are to be acknowledged in any document where authors would usually be listed electronic data from use of the instrument are to be shared with interRAI, subject to existing laws on confidentiality and data use. A report written for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services highlights “IP issues with respect to the RAI/MDS are complicated because the assessment instrument and data set have always been considered to be in the public domain, but only in the United States. Beyond United States borders, interRAI claims rights to version 2.0 of the RAI and MDS, and use of the RAI/MDS requires a license agreement with interRAI. IP issues are further complicated by the fact that the 1995 edition of the user's manual for version 2.0, written for and with HCFA, has been copyrighted by interRAI with the U.S. Copyright Office, which is unusual for a work considered to be in the public domain” p11. The other instruments for assessing people across the continuum of care, for example home care, assisted living, palliative care, and acute care, appear to be solely the intellectual property of interRAI, and their use subject to licensing agreements with interRAI. InterRAI has promoted the complete set of assessment instruments as suitable for assessing all post acute care patients. The report highlights an issue about the intellectual property of scales based on the interRAI. Copyright information on the interRAI web site includes the statement: "The scales, algorithms, and case-mix measures based on these assessment instruments cannot be copyrighted and are thus available to everyone (although the individual items on which they are based are usually copyrighted).” The report argues that
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