Re: question

From: Dan L Burk <BURKDANL[_at_]shu.edu>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 20:14:42 -0400

On 9/8/98, Beverly Bowles <bbowles[_at_]hshsl.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.

Hm. I assume that Medline abstracts are government works (written by someone at NIH?) and so are in the public domain.

I tend to think that compiling the abstracts is not a problem. The Seinfeld case gives me slight pause, but I think it is distinguishable enough not to cause much worry.

Maybe someone else here sees something I don't.

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Dan L. Burk
Seton Hall University
burkdanl[_at_]shu.edu

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