RE: Use/Publication of Abstracts That Accompany Journal Articles

I can at least clear up the second point.  From the PMC
website:

"Copyright to all material deposited in PMC remains
with the 
publisher or individual authors, whichever is applicable.
PMC is 
simply an archive and does not claim copyright on any
material in 
the archive."

Ian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-liblicense-llists.yale.edu
[mailto:owner-liblicense-
> llists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Tschanz
> Sent: 03 May 2008 00:44
> To: liblicense-llists.yale.edu
> Subject: Use/Publication of Abstracts That Accompany
Journal Articles
>
> Dear Listers:
>
> I would appreciate your advice on answering these
questions,
> recently raised by a faculty member:
>
> "I am creating a bibliography of articles on a
topic. My
> bibliography will be published as a journal article or
technical
> report.
>
>     -do I need to get permission of the publisher to
include the
> abstract that appears in the cited article, or does my
use of
> those abstracts fall under fair use? (small portions of
the
> original publication)
>
>     -If [I] obtain the abstract from a database like
PubMed, which
> is not itself copyrighted and is in the public domain,
does that
> affect my use?
>
> Is there a citation or source that I can refer to for
> substantiating this?"
>
> Thanks in advance for your expert opinions and
interpretations!
>
> Karen S. Tschanz,  M.L.S., M.B.A., M.S.O.D.
> Asst. Prof./Chair, Content Management
> Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D., Library, AB-241
> Medical College of Georgia
> Augusta, GA 30912
> E-mail: ktschanzmail.mcg.edu