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That's a fundamental difference to me. The (international) NPC supports individual school NPCs, the (international) NIC doesn't support school NICs. (I'm guessing the NPHC are closer to the NIC model).
As for the rights to Baird's. I'm *really* not sure how keeping the ownership of both the name "Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities" and the copyrights of the post 1923 editions of the Manual generates one dime of revenue to the NIC.
While making a good new Baird's would be easier than it was in 1905 (for example), most of that is because the chapter list and organization descriptions are easily available through the web. In fact, I would argue that at least 70% of the contents of a 2015 Baird's would be quite reasonable to have on Wikipedia (and what isn't would fit well on a private wiki)
In fact if Baird's didn't exist, someone in 2015 trying to get the information similar to what Baird did in 1879 would spend about 3 hours on the web.
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