Can I display crystal structures using atomic coordinates from publications on my webpage without the consent (but with citation) of the author ? Does it fall under "fair use" (sorry, don't know the exact term) ? What about very old papers (1930-50) ?
To my knowledge, those coordinates are already gathered in databases like CSD, ICSD, CRYSTMET, PDB and I have never heard about any permission asked to the >1000 journals or >200000 authors... In principle, everyone can build a database. Simply do it ! Copy the coordinates from the journals, not from the already existing databases ;-). Best, Armel Le Bail - Universite du Maine, Laboratoire des Fluorures, CNRS ESA 6010, Av. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France http://www.cristal.org/ 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)