From what I have read, there is no absolute definition of "short".
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.pdf
Looks like Pubmed allows their site to be copied as long as credit is given to them.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/copyright.html
Took a look at JAMA
http://pubs.ama-assn.org/misc/conditions.dtl - thought it might represent the medical journals -
Quote:
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No part of the material may be used in any form of commercial exploitation, including but not limited to, print or broadcast media, and no subscriber or user may publish as its own any material contained on this site. User may not use the material on a public computer based information system, including any electronic bulletin board available to the public, including the Internet or World Wide Web, other than for gaining access to the material from the AMA.
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To me that sounds like if an abstract is used to direct others to the source, there is no violation.
Is my intepretation wrong?
Anne