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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 28, 2008, at 8:58 PM, Reese, Terry wrote: >>> This seems like a real grey area. I can see Thomson Scientific >>> putting up a fuss when using ENS files generated by the creator of >>> EndNote. But ENS files can -- and have -- be created by just about >>> anyone (librarians, journal publishers, researchers) and published >>> on >>> the open web. (As the original author of the quoted section above, please replace "can -- and have -- be created" with "can -- and have -- been created".) > I'm not sure that's what they are saying. Endnote does come with > ens files that they create (I believe, that was the case the last > time I looked at the software), managed and provided as part of > their application. They certainly can claim rights to those (this > isn't really a gray area) -- and unless the Zotero software is able > to determine user generated files from files distributed as part of > the Endnote application, then it could be problematic. Agreed -- if Thomson Scientific created the ENS style file in question, then it is their intellectual property and there are probably grounds for the lawsuit. The version of EndNote I have (circa 2005) came with a couple dozen styles, and as of now Thomson Scientific has 3,500 up on their EndNote Styles website. Even these may not be created by Thomson Scientific itself -- the notes in the Zotero enhancement ticket mention that some of the styles might be user-contributed. A quick perusal of the Zotero code that decodes the ENS file (https://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/extension/trunk/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/enstyle.js?rev=2908 #L112) would seem to show that there is nothing in the ENS file that points to who created the style. If there was some way to exclude EndNote style files created Thomson Scientific, then Zotero would probably be okay. But, then again, I'm not a lawyer... Peter - -- Peter Murray http://www.pandc.org/peter/work/ Assistant Director, New Service Development tel:+1-614-728-3600;ext=338 OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network Columbus, Ohio The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Ask me how you can start digitally signing your email! iD8DBQFI4DJg4+t4qSfPIHIRAmyqAJ98q5NlGexU1LxBMn83126ExoTABQCfcLEB Dkipu/L0A8pMFXkSbmXPIug= =Fr7M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----