ChristianKl comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 24 February 2014 09:16:55AM 0 points [-]

He claims that his interpretation of the boiler-plate license doesn't allow that. I think he's mistaken and that in any event he could get permission if he asked.

I think his post is effectively asking in a guess culture way. He wants that the publishers respond and say that their broad license doesn't limit what he's doing.

What he really wants to do (from other posts on the blog), that he definitely couldn't get permission for, is to synthesize the literature into a database of chemicals; which the publishers won't allow because they do that by hand.

Only the American Chemical Society (ACS) does that. The are also registered as a non-profit. The fact that they fight the advancement of science is a huge tragedy.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 24 February 2014 05:09:02PM 0 points [-]

Only the American Chemical Society (ACS) does that.

He explicitly mentions an Elsevier database as the reason that he's worried about mining Elsevier data.

I think his post is effectively asking in a guess culture way. He wants that the publishers respond and say that their broad license doesn't limit what he's doing.

There is some of that in other posts on the blog. But that particular post is about images. He can't just click "agree" and do what he wants, but he has to explicitly ask them about every image project.

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