On 10/03/2008, Chris Howie <cdhowie(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:11 PM,
<WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
That CAS has assigned a number to a chemical is a
fact, and that
number as a fact, enjoys no copyright.
I have recorded a song digitally, and as such it is a really long
number... I don't disagree with you on this point, but it's not
a particularly strong argument you make.
You've raised and demolished a straw man here. CAS cannot in fact
claim copyright on the numerical match, and if they pushed it people
would leave them en masse.
It's not just a straw man, it's a straw man in left field.
Whatever CAS is claiming and whatever the legal merits of their
claim are, they are *not* claiming that we can't put individual
CAS numbers on individual web pages.