[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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > > _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
