US-centred folk may want to check out http://www.benedict.com/, which has a good section on 'fair use' for american copyright law. It looks particularly relevant to academic/non-profit work. Needless to say, it is not definitive, but it does give useful guidance on the main issues. 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)