Re: Ah, wonderful copyright

> OCLC's nonprofit status doesn't have anything to do with any
> claims of copyright.  The two are disjoint.

Well, not if you're asking the question, is there an entity called "OCLC,"
how is it organized as a nonprofit, and what does it own? Not such a
farfetched question, as it is one that affected a lot of things at FPOW-1.

> As I mentioned before, members have a say in the matters of
> the cooperative.  If they don't like the direction then they
> have a right to organize and bring the issues before members
> council so they can be considered.

Right-that's my line of thinking. One of the things I hear about OCLC is how
it is "them," and "they" do things TO or AT us, but (depending in part on
how its nonprofit status is organized) "them" is pretty much "us." This is
what Cracker Barrel learned after it went public: you are your stakeholders.
The difference in OCLC's case is that I see the members, not OCLC, confused
on this point.

K.G. Schneider
kgs <at> bluehighways.com