I think they're available on the Internet Archive somewhere too? But I
can never remember where.
Jonathan
Jason Griffey wrote:
> As I mentioned, they are available from Ibiblio on the link above. The
> copyright claim is...well...specious at best. But no one really wants
> to be the one to go to court and prove it. They've been publicly
> available for more than a year now on the Fred 2.0 site, and they
> haven't been sued, to my knowledge.
>
> Jason
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Nate Vack <njvack_at_wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Bryan Baldus
>> <bryan.baldus_at_quality-books.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> One way (as you likely know) (official, expensive) is via The Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service:
>>>
>> Huh. They claim copyright of these records. I'd somehow thought:
>>
>> 1: The federal government can't hold copyrights
>>
>> 2: As purely factual data, catalog records are conceptually uncopyrightable
>>
>> Anyone who knows more about this than I do know if they're *really*
>> copyrighted, or if it's more of a "we're gonna try and say they're
>> copyrighted and hope no one ignores us"?
>>
>> Curious,
>> -Nate
>>
>>
>
>
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