David Gerard you wrote:
On 10/03/2008, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:11 PM, WJhonson@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.