On 08/03/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/03/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=997 They have a specific hate-on for Wikipedia:
That isn't hate. That is fear. The amount of money in large chemistry databases is significant. Wikipedia doesn't threaten that yet but has the potential to so do.
ACS is a non-profit. This won't help their egregious claim.
Pantone manage the trick of owning a proprietary industry standard and claiming a monopoly rent on it ... but what's tolerable for commercial printing is less reasonable when trying to claim a tax on the pursuit of pure scientific knowledge.
The copyright claim is hard to judge. A horrible mixture of database rights and more conventional copyright so yeah any legal commentary is going to need to be seriously informed.
I think we could quite easily say "Hahahahaha fuck off, make my day" and they know it. But a less nuclear option is worth exploring. To be nice and stuff.
- d.