Ref: "You can't put it on the net unless you go walk the cemetery yourself. The work is copyrighted." The Fair Use Doctrine allows the use of portions of most any copyrighted article. The writer of the above statement was correct that the copyrighted book could not be reproduced on the Internet without the authors written permission. But he/she has a very narrow view of the copyright law. The Fair Use Doctrine usually permits extraction of bits and pieces of a work, whether for critical review, or for educational purposes, and other uses. Under this Doctrine, the owner of this book could, if they chose to, do look-ups of information found in the book, and share it with the world. Personally, I would have a problem with someone doing this sharing of a copyrighted item, for profit. Were I the owner of the copyrighted item, I would welcome the publicity generated by the mention of the name of my book by those lookups, because sales would be generated. The following URL is a legal resource, one of many, that addresses this issue. http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/f/a/Fair_use.html