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Re: Don't Cache that check


From: Simon Lockhart <simon () slimey org>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:28:09 +0100


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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