Philip Sandifer wrote:
On Mar 9, 2008, at 1:04 AM, Brian wrote:
I suggest that we remove all CAS Registry Numbers from Wikipedia. They are
not Free. The ACS has been generous, *so far,* to politely say as much to us.
While I think that the stampy-feet nuclear option is not workable, I'm unconvinced this makes sense either. The enforceability of their copyright claim seems dubious, and I suspect that they're hard pressed, as a non-profit scholarly resource, to bitch about a non- profit scholarly resource quoting and referencing them. We should not fold and not reference an industry standard that is in wide and public use (i.e. used in patent applications) because of an overstepping copyright claim, which this certainly seems like it could be.
I think that they are not alone in facing challenges to their pseudo-proprietary rights.
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