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Summary of Antitrust Lawsuit: SkyRiver & Innovative Interfaces v. OCLC

On July 28, 2010, SkyRiver Technology Solutions joined with Innovative Interfaces to file suit in San Francisco federal court against OCLC Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) alleging numerous anticompetitive business practices and antitrust violations. SkyRiver, a bibliographic services company, and Innovative Interfaces, a library automation company, claim that OCLC is “unlawfully monopolizing the bibliographic data, cataloguing service and interlibrary lending markets and is attempting to monopolize the market for integrated library systems by anticompetitive and exclusionary agreements, policies and practices.” (p. 1) The outcome of the lawsuit could have significant impact on the library software and technology services industry by opening up OCLC’s services, such as WorldCat, to use by commercial competitors. ARL members have asked for a review of the current state of the suit.

 skyriver-oclc-antitrust29nov10.pdf

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