Ken Arromdee wrote:
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?
Probably yes. That's why fair-use should remain an argument of last resort. If we can establish that these numbers are not copyrightable, why should we need to resort to fair use.
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