Steve Summit wrote:
I couldn't remember, but after a bit of poking
around, I found it
(of course) right within our own 'pedia. From [[PubChem]]:
The American Chemical Society tried to get the
U.S. Congress to restrict the operation of PubChem,
because they claim it competes with their Chemical
Abstracts Service.
That sentence is sourced to <http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/
news/acs_pubchem.html>, which says
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is calling on
Congress to "refocus" and curtail the NIH's PubChem, a
freely accessible database that connects chemical
information with biomedical research and clinical
information, organizing facts in numerous public
databases into a unified whole.
That page has several media citations from May-June 2005.
If they were so confident about having copyrights there would be no need
for them to ask congress to impose these restrictions.
Ec