{
  "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1",
  "title": "chem-bla-ics",
  "description": "Chemblaics (pronounced chem-bla-ics) is the science that uses open science and computers to solve problems in chemistry, biochemistry and related fields.",
  "home_page_url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/",
  "feed_url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2007/05/25/numbers-are-copyrighted.json",
  "icon": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/assets/images/chem-bla-ics_logo.png",
  "language": "en",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Egon Willighagen",
      "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286",
      "_orcid": "0000-0001-7542-0286"
    }
  ],
  "items": [

    {
      "id": "https://doi.org/10.59350/jtzzf-jfz50",
      "url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2007/05/25/numbers-are-copyrighted.html",
      "title": "Numbers are copyrighted?",
      "content_html": "<p>I just read on <a href=\"http://www.blueobelisk.org/planetbo/\">Planet Blue Obelisk</a> <a href=\"http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/\">Peter</a>’s\ndisturbing news (via <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.63485/mppz2-19243\">Suber <i class=\"fa-solid fa-recycle fa-xs\"></i></a>) that\n<a href=\"https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2007/05/24/sued-for-10-data-points/\">Wiley thinks it can copyright a set of numbers <i class=\"fa-solid fa-recycle fa-xs\"></i></a> (also known as data).\nThat is a sad milestone in scientific publishing. It reminds me of the recent internet hype about a long number recently\nflooding the internet (and notably <a href=\"http://www.del.icio.us/\">del.icio.us</a>) related to watching DVDs you legally bought.\nSome details can be found in this <a href=\"http://www.lwn.net/\">Linux Weekly News</a> article on\n<a href=\"http://lwn.net/Articles/233660/\">How Debian packages a number</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Interestingly, this is really not problems just regarding commercial publishers, or closed access publishing or so. Yesterday,\n<a href=\"http://wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/blog/\">Christoph</a> and I working on getting <a href=\"https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2006/09/08/chemical-archeology-oscar3-to.html\">the NMR spectrum text mining <i class=\"fa-solid fa-recycle fa-xs\"></i></a>\ngoing in <a href=\"http://www.bioclipse.net/\">Bioclipse</a> again for the <a href=\"http://teacher.bmc.uu.se/BioclipseWS07/\">workshop</a>,\nwe noticed that the open access <a href=\"http://bjoc.beilstein-journals.org/\">Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry</a>,\ndoes not make <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data\">Open Data</a> reality either: the experimental sections are\ngenerally (all?) excluded from the main text in HTML and obscured in .doc files in the supplementary information.</p>\n\n<p>BTW, this makes me wonder if organic chemists still consider the experimental properties of molecules novel science.</p>\n\n<h4>References</h4>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n    <div class=\"csl-entry\">Suber, P. (2007). Carl Zimmer contrasts Wiley and PLoS. In <i>Front Matter</i>. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.63485/mppz2-19243 <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.63485/mppz2-19243\">CrossRef</a> <a href=\"https://qlever.scholia.wiki/doi/10.63485/mppz2-19243\">Scholia</a></div>\n  </div>",
      "summary": "I just read on Planet Blue Obelisk Peter’s disturbing news (via Suber ) that Wiley thinks it can copyright a set of numbers (also known as data). That is a sad milestone in scientific publishing. It reminds me of the recent internet hype about a long number recently flooding the internet (and notably del.icio.us) related to watching DVDs you legally bought. Some details can be found in this Linux Weekly News article on How Debian packages a number.",
      
      "date_published": "2007-05-25T00:00:00+00:00",
      "date_modified": "2025-07-30T00:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": ["copyright"],
      "_references": [
        
          
          
            { "url": "https://doi.org/10.63485/mppz2-19243", "doi": "10.63485/mppz2-19243"
             }
            
          
        ],
      
      
      
      
      
      
        "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ]
      
    }

  ]
}