On Friday, May 08, 2009 12:14 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>I am not a lawyer, but I'm pretty damn confident that you do not need OCLC's permission to use OCLC control numbers however you want. For reasons I explain in that blog post.
Without looking into the official position, it is my belief that, in MARC records, the OCLC number may be used by anyone in 035 without issue. However, there may be prohibitions against non-OCLC members (or others) using the OCLC number in the 001 for records not coming directly from OCLC.
>I'm curious what the "allowable" duplicates are in WorldCat though?
Parallel records would be the most likely form of "allowable" duplicate. If a record has been created with 040$b in one language, and another library comes along whose language differs from that $b, then they are supposed to enter a parallel record in their own language, even though both records describe the identical thing.
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