copyright health drugs
Is drug information copyright protected. Example: drug brand name, side effects etc. Is licensing actually required for commercial use?
<p>Follow up from:</p>
<p><a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/16579/can-information-about-a-drug-trade-name-interactions-etc-be-copyright-pro">Can information about a drug - trade name, interactions, etc. - be copyright protected?</a></p>
<p>Numerous drug databases indicate that the information they provide about drugs is free for educational use.</p>
<p>I am building a website that may use snippets of information, for instance, interactions of a drug or what a drug is used for. This won't be a copy and paste of what the drug databases provide.</p>
<p>Any advice on whether this would infringe copyright? Is drug information opensource information? Do I need to 'cite the source'? If so, numerous databases have the same information, who do i Cite</p>

<p>Your first sentence already says that these databases don't consider their information &quot;open source&quot;. You may consider it open source, but that will only get you into court.</p>
<p>Are you using the data for educational or for commercial use? Extracting bits that you are interested in from <em>all</em> database entries and using them to build an application points very strongly to commercial use. Again, you may disagree, but that will only get you into court.</p>
<p>You can collect the information you want from the original sources. That's 1,000 times more work, but much more likely to be legal. On the other hand, that's what these people creating the databases have done, and that's how they make their living. So do you expect the law to help you destroying their livelihood?</p>
