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

[David Gerard]

On 10/03/2008, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "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...


If they have in fact taken care only to target people who've expressly
made such an agreement, that's somewhat less objectionable, even if
it's quite possibly a bad thing for science.

If they were caught attempting to intimidate third parties from
recording numbers they knew of, or fourth parties from creating lists
from numbers noted by the third parties, that would be an entirely
different kettle of opprobrium.


- d.