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Re: Don't Cache that check

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Wed Sep 21 15:29:00 2005

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:28:09 +0100
From: Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org>
To: "J. Oquendo" <sil@politrix.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0509211440120.4525@kungfunix.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 02:44:22PM -0400, J. Oquendo wrote:
> 2. Defendant Google Inc. (.Google.) owns and operates a major Internet
> search engine that, among other things, provides access to commercial and
> other sites on the Internet. Google has contracted with several public and
> university libraries to create digital "archives" of the libraries'
> collections of books, including that of the University of Michigan
> library. 

IANAL, but surely the public and university libraries are equally at fault
for contracting to make available the books if, in doing so, they'd be
causing a copyright infringement?

Simon
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