Rzepa, Henry wrote:
Given that such "Added value" or "enhanced" articles might contain up to 100 or so molecules, perhaps with a great deal of associated property and spectral information and perhaps expressed in eg XML/CML, this must constitute by recent rules a copyrightable database.
By "recent rules", I assume you mean the European directive on databases. The law in the US is different - see http://chemweb.com/alchem/alchem98/warrzone/wzold/wz_981030_set.html (Incidentally, I would be interested to hear from any ChemWeb member who has trouble getting in to The Alchemist after clicking on the above URL.) Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)