Re: Nature Contract Provisions

["Karl A. Kocher" <kakocher@libpo.ucdavis.edu>]

While the Corporate copy of the license is cited here, the identical
provision appears in the Academic version.

I believe we should all be very grateful to Nature.  This is a generous
improvement over the Stockton Press license which obligates us to ensure
that our patrons do not retain any machine-readable copies of licensed
content on their hard drives longer than six (6) [sic? sick?] days.  As
Napster's experience demonstrates, we can't trust that our patrons won't
mistype or misname a file in order to hide its content.  So it looks like
we won't have to go around and format their hard drives once a week (for
this product) and will only have to do so if we can no longer afford to
pay for our subscription.  What a relief!


On Thu, 3 May 2001, David Goodman wrote:

> Please pay special attention to section 4.5.
> 
> http://www.nature.com/help/sitelicences/licence_agreements/nature_americas_corp.pdf
> 
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