Difference between revisions of "OCLC Policy Change"
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| − | There is now a petition called [http://watchdog.net/c/stop-oclc Stop the OCLC powergrab!] started by Aaron Swartz to change the new policy | + | There is now a petition called [http://watchdog.net/c/stop-oclc Stop the OCLC powergrab!] started by Aaron Swartz to change the new policy. Background in his post [http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/oclcscam Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab]. |
== Commentary Regarding First Revision (nov 2) == | == Commentary Regarding First Revision (nov 2) == | ||
Revision as of 13:54, 13 November 2008
Contents
The Policies
- Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat® Records (second and final version)
- Archived copy of first version
- Diff between the two versions
Petition
There is now a petition called Stop the OCLC powergrab! started by Aaron Swartz to change the new policy. Background in his post Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab.
Commentary Regarding First Revision (nov 2)
- pmurray - Is OCLC’s Change of WorldCat Record Use/Transfer Policy Related to the Google Book Search Agreement?
- jrochkind - viral nature of OCLC usage policy–like open source? No.
- Thingology - OCLC Policy Change
- Ed Summers - Bibliovirus
Commentary Regarding Second Revision (nov 5) / General
- Aaron Swartz - Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab
- jrochkind - More on OCLC’s policies
- jrochkind - copyright trivia, one more
- jrochkind - A logical OCLC argument
- jrochkind - I don’t actually want to destroy OCLC
- Karen Calhoun - Notes on OCLC's Updated Record Use Policy (NC)
- Repohate - Declaration of Independance of Metadata
- Rob Styles - OCLC, Record Usage, Copyright, Contracts and the Law
- Panlibus - What are OCLC playing at?
- Library Journal - After Delay, OCLC Lays Out New Policy for Records Use and Transfer (NC)
- Terry Reese - OCLC’s proposed new guidelines for the transfer of bibliographic records
- Terry Reese - What would it look like if OCLC was broken up?
- Terry Reese - A look at the Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records revision
- Ed Corrado - karen calhoun on oclc’s updated record use policy
- Ed Corrado - new oclc policy on worldcat records re-released
- Ed Corrado - update on oclc worldcat policy
- Karen Coombs - Who’s record is it anyway?
- Richard Wallis (Panlibus) - Keeping the WorldCat in the bag
- Open Content Alliance - New OCLC Records Policy Generates Debate
- Richard Wallis (Panlibus) - OCLC – any questions?
Comments on Comments
Sometimes the best insight comes in the comments added to blog postings and other stories. This Yahoo! Pipe (also available as an RSS feed) is a concatenation of all of the comments from the postings and stories above -- with the exception of those marked "(NC)" because of use of software that doesn't support comment feeds. It was last updated as of page revision 1283.
