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
>