UK chemist on Elsevier's ban on textmining
I'm not sure how a tool to read some text and display a diagram of the chemical reaction described falls under the "law" of the quoted passage.  Copyright law certainly allows for this, so all the journals can do is say, "you don't get to buy our feed anymore if you run your program on our articles," but surely this is a game of chicken because no company wants to lose tens of thousands of dollars a year for no reason.<p>I would implement this as a browser plugin that uploads the content to a server (like Google Translate), and let the journals deal with each rogue user individually.<p>Telling people what software they can use to read text doesn't scale.