Tapeworm descriptions scanned

[Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr.]

I visited the site listed below.  I opened several generic treatments,
and one of them had the protologue, published in 1925, available as a PDF
file.  For those knowledgeable about copyright, is this covered under the
fair-use provision of the copyright laws, or is permission required to
distribute it on the Internet?  If this is permitted under the fair-use
provision, is there a ruling on what percentage of a publication can be
used under the fair-use provision?  For example, there are many articles
that are entirely the description of a single new taxon, in which the
entire article is the protologue for the new taxon.

Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr.
USDA, Agricultural Research Service
Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory
Room 304, Building 011A, BARC-West
Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350 USA
Voice telephone: 301-504-9447
FAX: 301-504-5810
Internet: jkirkbri at asrr.arsusda.gov

On Tue, 14 May 2002, George Hammond wrote:

> Janine Caira and Charles Henry and and their students at the University of
> Connecticut have scanned a large number of old descriptions and
> illustrations of tapeworm species. They've incorporated them into a
> database that is available online.  Here is the url:
> <http://www.eeb.uconn.edu:591/PEET/database.htm>
>