On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Bryan Baldus
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> 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