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

[Ray Saintonge]

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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