Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply

The operator of WorldCat won a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, with a federal judge ruling yesterday that the shadow ...
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OCLC files lawsuit against Anna’s Archive over alleged WorldCat data scraping

OCLC, the renowned American nonprofit behind the WorldCat bibliographic database, has taken legal action against Anna’s Archive, a search engine accused of scraping WorldCat data. As TorrentFreak ...
Publishers Weekly

OCLC Sues Clarivate Over Potential WorldCat Competitor

Nonprofit library technology cooperative OCLC (the company behind WorldCat, the world’s largest global catalog of library collections) has filed a federal lawsuit against Clarivate and its ...
American Libraries

WorldCat Policy Revision Draws Librarians’ Ire

OCLC’s proposed “Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records,” released November 2 and revised November 5 and 19 (PDF file), has been greeted with a host of critical blog postings and two online ...
Publishers Weekly

OCLC Acquires CloudLibrary Digital Content Platform

Nonprofit library technology cooperative OCLC—the company behind WorldCat, the world’s largest global catalog of library collections—has acquired CloudLibrary, a digital lending service platform ...