Copyright and latin descriptions

[Karstad-Schueler]

ricardo wrote:
>
> I have feeling that thanks to copyright law all new names are protected
> and cannot be used at any  paper oc check-list and not only in any
> publication but cannot be used at any determenation label without
> written permisiion for each specimen from publisher....
>

* well, that may be the law, but the whole idea of copyright being
applied to scholarly materials strikes me as a major contradiction in
value systems. Can copyright apply to a name?  and is a description an
independent text, or an appendage to the name? Copyright is intended to
protect commercial interest in a text, tune, or image. The motivation for
scholarly publication is the widest possible dissemination of the
material, and so long as a proper citation is given, someone who quotes
(I'm not talking about reprinting) a scholarly work provides a service to
the original author, rather than stealing from him as copyright assumes.

fred schueler.
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