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ACS Sues Google Over Use of 'Scholar'

Posted by timothy on from the because-scholarship-is-all-about-trademarks dept.

headisdead writes "John Batelle is noting that 'The American Chemical Society yesterday filed a complaint against Google, claiming the new Google Scholar infringes on its own product, called SciFinder Scholar.' Fairly typical subscription vs. free dispute, but with intellectual property issues thrown in for good measure."

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  1. Re:Language by Emediquei · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Step 1: Copyright 'copywriting' Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit!

  2. Rival Society by iamlucky13 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As far as I can tell, the ACS is not too dissimilar from the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) online journal database. You have to be a paid member of ASME to access it and I believe some of the full-texts have an additional fee. This has been around for years, but no complaints that I know of. For that matter, my school's library has subsciptions to several online journal databases. Not only would it be silly to press forward with this suit, but based on precedence this doesn't even seem like a fatal threat to ACS's database, unless they are totally inept and can't find anything to provide that the author doesn't want freely published.