Re: Library cooperation ( was : WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative )

From: Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:27:20 +0200
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Bernhard Eversberg writes

> What has also become obsolete is copyright on a standards document.
> Like, for instance, the text of a cataloging code of rules.
> The text of laws, like the US Code:
>   http://www.house.gov/house/laws.shtml
> are not copyrighted.

  I am convinced that cataloging rules should be freely available. 
  But that does not imply that they should not be copyrighted.
  The licencing of cataloging rules is what matters, not the 
  copyright on the rules. 

  To manifest my conviction I am working on making much of the text
  of Gorman's "Concise AARC" available for students of my LIS512 class
  at the Palmer School.

http://openlib.org/home/krichel/courses/lis512w10s/

  The rule site is freely accessible, but it is not quite finished
  yet.


  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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Received on Mon Apr 12 2010 - 10:28:42 EDT