On 08/03/2008, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/03/2008, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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.