On Mar 9, 2008, at 1:04 AM, Brian wrote:
I suggest
that we remove all CAS Registry Numbers from Wikipedia.
They are
not Free. The ACS has been generous, *so far,* to politely say as
much to us.
While I think that the stampy-feet nuclear option is not workable, I'm
unconvinced this makes sense either. The enforceability of their
copyright claim seems dubious, and I suspect that they're hard
pressed, as a non-profit scholarly resource, to bitch about a non-
profit scholarly resource quoting and referencing them. We should not
fold and not reference an industry standard that is in wide and public
use (i.e. used in patent applications) because of an overstepping
copyright claim, which this certainly seems like it could be.
I think that they
are not alone in facing challenges to their
pseudo-proprietary rights.
Ec