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Might or might not be offtopic: 1. Plaintiffs are published authors and The Authors Guild, the nation's largest organization of book authors, which has as its primary purpose to advocate for and support the copyright and contractual interests of published writers. The authors' works are contained in certain public and university libraries, and have not been licensed for commercial use. 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. As part of the consideration for creating digital copies of these collections, the agreement entitles Google to reproduce and retain for its own commercial use a digital copy of the libraries' archives. http://wendy.seltzer.org/media/AuthorsGuild-v-Google.pdf I wonder what this will do for you ISP guys out there that use Cache servers. Technically if the suit holds, your company too would be violating laws. Which makes me wonder... If I listened to say a streaming audio clip of an unreleased album... That album goes to my computer's cache, can I be sued if I turn around and sell my cache. ;) =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J. Oquendo GPG Key ID 0x97B43D89 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x97B43D89 "Just one more time for the sake of sanity tell me why explain the gravity that drove you to this..." Assemblage
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