OCLC Policy Change

The Policies

• Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat® Records (second and final version)
• Archived copy of first version
• Diff between the two versions

• Previous 1987 version

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

Commentary Regarding Second Revision (nov 5) / General

• Aaron Swartz - Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab (NC)
• 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?
• Sarah Hartman-Caverly - Final ‘Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records’ Posted by OCLC

Comments on Comments

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