Re: Ah, wonderful copyright

On 4/27/07 11:45 AM, K.G. Schneider wrote:
>> 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.

Well, for that, one can go to the IRS 990 form.  The last on file that I
could find was from 2005:

http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2005/310/734/2005-310734115-02527b80-9.pdf

Page 25 has in interesting line:  $48,390,108 under the heading
"Capitalized Database" -- the union catalog?

On page 22 there is also an expense for "Cataloging Credits" -- did OCLC
buy the original cataloging?

Peter
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