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-metadata.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
