OCLC Policy Change

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On November 13, 2008, a petition called Stop the OCLC powergrab! was started by Aaron Swartz to repeal the new policy. Background in his blog post, Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab.

On December 1, 2008, Elaine Sanchez created a new petition with more depth and specificity. The petition calls for OCLC to vacate the new policy, create a more open process for revising the 1987 guidelines, and assert that the records are the property of the respective contributing members. Ms. Sanchez posted an announcement about it on the Autocat mailing list.

• Thingology OCLC Policy Re-re-released, now in unfriendly PDF

• 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

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