Works produced by U.S. government agencies is not 
copyrighted.  Bibliographic information is not copyrightable.  Titles of 
books are not copyrightable. They may be registered trademarks.  Library of 
Congress has information about copyrights on their web site. The results of 
collecting information for a data base such as OCLC is protected by 
copyright.  You may not copy an entire catalog without permission. Copying 
of individual records is a normal activity within libraries. This is one of 
the ways libraries share resources.

Putting material on a webpage is protected by copyright.  The owner does 
even have to claim copyright.  This has nothing to do with cataloging.

My December Librarian's Lobby dealt with some of the issues of trademark 
and copyright.


Daniel Stuhlman
Chicago, IL  60645
ddstuhlman @ earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/liblob.htm

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