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

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/10/2008 5:18:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
oldakquill at gmail.com writes:

Aside  from the issues of database and
collative copyright, how copyrightable is  an identifier of the form
74-82-8?>>



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Facts are not copyrightable.
Facts enjoy no copyright protection.
 
That George Smith married Susan Brown is a fact no matter how many years  
some wank took to figure it out.  Once they did, and published a 500 page  book 
detailing all the work they endured to do it, and on the last page  concluded 
"and so we now know that her maiden name was Brown..." it's now a fact  and the 
copyright to that fact does not exist.
 
That CAS has assigned a number to a chemical is a fact, and that number as  a 
fact, enjoys no copyright.
 
Copyright accrues to the artistic effort of the verbage contained within a  
work.  The copyright is to the 500 page book and its contents, not to  specific 
facts therein.  Specific pieces of text, even if not facts, can  always be 
cited and enjoy no exclusionary copyright protection on themselves  individually.
 
Will Johnson



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