Erik Moeller wrote:
The British Library has called for a wide-scale revision of existing copyright law, which, it said, inadequately addresses digital content, putting too much control into the hands of content producers and owners.
It would be nice if the British Library heeded its own advice and adopted similarly liberal rules toward the content metadata it collects in its capacity as cataloger as that which it is trying to foist upon content creators:
"Whilst there should be no technical difficulties in accessing the CURL database for record retrieval (provided the library has internet access), there are some issues surrounding re-use of records. Royalty or licence fees are paid to some record suppliers (British Library, SLS), which may rise if the number of records downloaded from the database increases..." http://www.curl.ac.uk/projects/db6.htm