Re: question

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Beverly Bowles <bbowles[_at_]umaryland.edu> wrote:
>
> An organization wants to make a CD-ROM containing their guidelines.
> They want to attach a bibliography to the guidelines. They want the
> user to be able to click on a citation and get the abstract to the
> article. NOT the entire article.
>
> Is this going against copyright? The abstract of the article will be
> gotten from medline.

I believe these abstracts are protected under copyright. Owners would be the author, if an abstract was written by same, or Medline in the cases where they had to have the abstract written (not likely in most or even any cases?). Of course, if an author had assigned copyright to the publisher of the article, then the article likely also belongs to same.

Cheers,

Bernard Katz, Head, Special Collections and Library Development McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, Guelph ON Canada N1G 2W1

   and Chair, Ontario Library Association Copyright Action Committee bkatz[_at_]uoguelph.ca // (519) 824-4120 X2089 // FAX: (519) 824-6931 Received on Tue Sep 08 1998 - 23:14:32 GMT