I imagine many here have seen that Reuters (which I guess recently bought Thomson, which had previously bought ISI, which had even farther back bought Niles!) is suing George Mason University for Zotero's (now removed) ability to read Endnote style files. My take is here ...
<http://community.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/archives/2008/09/27/lawsuit> ... but you can Google for other good information. I really don't think this suit has any chance of prevailing, but if it did, the implications would be really bad, and impact far more widely than Zotero. As I've said elsewhere, what Reuters will be effectively claiming if they win is that ALL Endnote style files are their property! As far as I'm concerned, this would be no different than if Sun claimed that all OOo template files I produced were their property. I'd urge people to talk to their university library people about this (I've already done so with my library dean), and see if they might urge Reuters to drop this ridiculous suit. Bruce --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
