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

[Andrew Gray]

On 10/03/2008, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:

>  There also seems to be a free look-up independent of ACS
>  (http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/cas-ser.html). That said, this page
>  is footed with "CAS registry numbers are copyrighted by the American
>  Chemical Society. Redistribution rights for CAS registry numbers are
>  reserved by the American Chemical Society. "CAS registry" is a
>  registered trademark of the American Chemical society.".

"Redistribution rights" is probably the key phrase here - without
explicitly saying so, that seems to be the same sort of restriction as
SciFinder places on the user. It just makes the lookup process
no-charge...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk