[okfn-discuss] Library Record Copyright

Tue Nov 18 15:33:49 UTC 2008

[Wrote this last week, but wasn't delivered!]

I followed this a bit as it came out. Apparently original policy was much
more restrictive but they pulled it. Tim Spalding wrote about this:

  http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/11/worldcat-policy-change.php

Someone grabbed the original before it was pulled:

  http://marc.coffeecode.net/oclc_2008_11_02/

Diff file here:

  http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php?title=OCLC_Policy_Changes&diff=11748&oldid=11747

A reminder of our response to LoC, from about this time last year:

  http://okfn.org/wiki/FutureOfBibliographicControl

J.

On Thu, November 13, 2008 15:09, Benjamin O'Steen wrote:
> The OCLC policy shift has really stirred up some issues. Rob Styles has
> written a good, well-researched article examining the policy changes:
>
> http://dynamicorange.com/2008/11/06/oclc-record-usage-copyright-contracts
> -and-the-law/
>
>
> And there is also this ;)
> http://repohate.blogspot.com/2008/11/declaration-of-independance-of-metada
> ta.html
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 11:42 +0000, Rob Myers wrote:
>
>> "Not satisfied with controlling the world's largest source of book
>> information, it wants to take over all the smaller ones as well. It's now
>> demanding that every library that uses WorldCat give the copyright to
>> all its catalog records to OCLC. It literally is asking libraries to put
>> an OCLC copyright notice on every book record in their catalog. It wants
>> to own every library."
>>
>> http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/oclcscam
>>
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