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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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Bryan Baldus >> <[log in to unmask]> 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 >> >> > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu