Difference between revisions of "OCLC Policy Change"
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Revision as of 02:18, 21 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
- Dan Scott - Archive of OCLC WorldCat Policy as posted 2008-11-02
- Libology - OCLC WorldCat is the Tiger, not the Lady
Commentary Regarding Second Revision (nov 5) / General
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 1395.
