That leads me to ask: does the AMA claim copyright on the CPT codes themselves, or just on the descriptions of the codes? If the latter, I think there would be a lot of merit in a community project to create and maintain new descriptions. I've been told that the AMA's descriptions are not very physician-friendly.
Rod www.sunsetsystems.com On Saturday 09 December 2006 10:18, 80n wrote: > This reminds me of a similar situation in the UK with postcodes (their > equivalent of zip codes). Unlike the US where zip codes are in the public > domain, the British Post Office owns the postcode database and protects it > agressively. > > An enterprising group of people recently started an initiative at > www.FreeThePostcode.org to "reverse engineer" the postcode database by > getting people to record their own postcode and geographic location on the > web-site. So far they have not been closed down by the post office. > > I'm wondering if anything like a similar approach could work with CPT codes? > > 80n
