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

[Steve Summit]

David Gerard you wrote:
>On 10/03/2008, Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:11 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>>> That CAS has assigned a number to a chemical is a fact, and that
>>> number as a fact, enjoys no copyright.
>>
>> I have recorded a song digitally, and as such it is a really long
>> number...  I don't disagree with you on this point, but it's not
>> a particularly strong argument you make.
>
> You've raised and demolished a straw man here. CAS cannot in fact
> claim copyright on the numerical match, and if they pushed it people
> would leave them en masse.

It's not just a straw man, it's a straw man in left field.
Whatever CAS is claiming and whatever the legal merits of their
claim are, they are *not* claiming that we can't put individual
CAS numbers on individual web pages.