[OAI-general] concerns about new OAIster terms/conditions

[Hagedorn, Kat]

Update:
There is now a new post on the "Hanging Together" blog at OCLC from Roy
Tennant: http://hangingtogether.org/?p=739
A new communication with a link to the new Terms & Conditions will be sent
to all OAIster data providers.

 -Kat


On 9/23/09 11:24 AM, "Hagedorn, Kat" <khage at umich.edu> wrote:

> From Peter Gorman:
>> Thanks for the reply. But even if OCLC's current intent is just to
>> harvest metadata, the license language very specifically mentions
>> content as well, and must have been inserted for some purpose.
> 
> No, I think it was boilerplate. They are working on it.
> 
>> Furthermore, the phrase "made available to OCLC" could be construed
>> as applying to more than the harvesting context: URLs in metadata
>> records certainly make content available to OCLC.
> 
> I will forward that to them.
> 
> From Simeon:
>> I wonder whether OCLC
>> will remove all existing content from OAIster until people agree to
>> the new license? (Hopefully revised to something more rational.)
> 
> No, they will not. It is not a requirement to sign that form. My guess is
> they will move quickly to change this, but that is only IMO.
> 
>  -Kat
> 
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> Kat Hagedorn
> HathiTrust Special Initiatives Coordinator
> Library Information Technology
> University of Michigan
> 
> http://hathitrust.org/
> email: khage at umich.edu
> phone: 734-615-7618
> 

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Kat Hagedorn 
HathiTrust Special Initiatives Coordinator
Library Information Technology
University of Michigan

http://hathitrust.org/
email: khage at umich.edu
phone: 734-615-7618