{"id":3742,"date":"2013-03-04T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T23:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2013-03-04T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T23:20:04","slug":"iii-and-skyriver-joine-and-drop-oclc-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/iii-and-skyriver-joine-and-drop-oclc-lawsuit.html","title":{"rendered":"III and SkyRiver Join and Drop OCLC Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two related bits of news in the world of libraries:<\/p>\n<p>Innovative Interfaces (III) and SkyRiver, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/skyriver-sues-oclc.html\">companies that had close ties<\/a>, and who had joined together to sue OCLC in 2010, have merged.<\/p>\n<p>Their first combined action?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iii.com\/news\/pr_display.php?id=562\"><strong>They dropped their lawsuit against OCLC.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oclc.org\/en-US\/news\/releases\/2013\/201315.html\">OCLC also issued a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although I understand fully that lawsuits are rarely about the big issues, I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/one-possible-oclc-solution.html\">hoped that this one would spark a discussion about OCLC&#8217;s role in the world of libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall Breeding&#8217;s excellent repository of information about the case:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarytechnology.org\/web\/breeding\/skyriver-vs-oclc\/\"><strong>SkyRiver vs. OCLC<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the way the lawsuit ends, not with a bang&#8230; but a merger&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two related bits of news in the world of libraries: Innovative Interfaces (III) and SkyRiver, companies that had close ties, and who had joined together to sue OCLC in 2010, have merged. Their first combined action?\u00a0 They dropped their lawsuit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/iii-and-skyriver-joine-and-drop-oclc-lawsuit.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Ym","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}