Re: OCLC's Policy for WorldCat Records

My guess is that OCLC is going to tighten its rules, requiring
libraries to deny records to commercial companies and to institutions
that may share them with others. Non-commercial use will be broadened,
but with licensing terms forbidding resharing.

This will hit sites like LibraryThing and ISBNdb hard. We are not
going to pay for access to records, particularly records from the
government-funded institutions that do most of OCLC's work.

And I suspect it will shut down the Open Library project, as they
won't accept data unless it has no restrictions on it.

Best,
Tim

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