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Re: Who owns our catalog records?
Lydia,
I think the key word is "reproduce." Sure he can copy them, use them, take
information from them, etc. I do NOT think he can simply reproduce the
catalog record images and publish them without some agreement from you.
Someone correct me if I am wrong.
Steve Fisher
University of Denver
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Lucas, Lydia wrote:
> Here's an interesting question that's come down from our Reference
> Department:
>
> ***The requestor would like to select some bibliographic records from our
> online catalog and reproduce them in a union catalog of genealogical books
> and manuscripts. He could possibly download quite a few - in 1999 he
> published the Genealogical Library Master Catalog with 300,000 bibliographic
> records on 3 CD-ROMs, which was picked by Library Journal as one of the best
> 10 CD-ROMs for that year. Maybe his conscience is bothering him? I don't
> know that we can stop him, but I do wonder who owns our records?***
>
> Seems to me that, by being publicly available, our catalog records are, in a
> sense, in the public domain, and that downloading them is just the modern
> substitute for transcribing the information by hand (which anyone would be
> perfectly free to do). The intended product being a union catalog, the
> matter of proper credit would not seem to be an issue, and an explicit
> blessing of this use could also be accompanied by an explicit request not to
> alter any data.
>
> I would be interested in others' perspectives.
>
> Lydia Lucas
> Head, Processing Department
> Minnesota Historical Society
> 345 Kellogg Boulevard West
> St. Paul, MN 55102-1906
> ph (651) 297-5542
> fax (651) 296-9961
> e-mail: lydia.lucas@mnhs.org
>
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