Re: Ah, wonderful copyright

It might be productive to see what OCLC's house counsel or law firm has
been up to lately.  It shouldn't take more than an hour with Google to
get started.

Better yet, ask them.

Mark Andrews

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[mailto:NGC4LIB <at> listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Houghton,Andrew
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 9:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Ah, wonderful copyright

> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Spalding
> Sent: 27 April, 2007 10:13
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> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Ah, wonderful copyright
>
> In sum, if OCLC has rights, they have to be contractual, not
> from copyright law.

I don't believe that OCLC ever claimed copyright on *any*
individual MARC record entered or batch loaded by member
libraries.  OCLC, I believe, claims copyright on the
aggregation of MARC records that comprise WorldCat.

This, in my limited understanding of copyright law, is
similar to when a publisher takes multiple copyrighted
works and creates an aggregated work (anthology?).  The
publisher makes no claim against the individual works,
only their authors can do that, but the publisher does
have claim on the aggregated work.

Andy.