On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Philip Sandifer wrote:
explicitly presents itself as fostering and aiding
scholarly pursuits.
That is to say, the original work is offered for nonprofit educational
purposes. Our use of it is also for nonprofit educational purposes.
There would, presumably, need to be some compelling issues to overcome
that rather large hurdle, no? I mean, given that this is non-profit
scholarly work on their part, they'd presumably have to establish how
this is different from any other scholarly referencing.
Remember Wikipedia's fair use policy?
Supposedly, the reason we don't like fair use images is that even though they
may be allowed for nonprofit uses, they mean that someone can't just copy a
Wikipedia article and use it for their own purposes, which may involve
profit.
Wouldn't nonprofit-only chemical numbers cause the same problem as
nonprofit images?