[WikiEN-l] CAS Discourages Using SciFinder to Help Curate Wikipedia

[Ray Saintonge]

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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