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Re: Secure networks
A further question: if the terms of a licence agreement seek to set up
conditions which are literally *impossible* to fulfil, where does the
(purported?) agreement stand?
Hal Cain, Joint Theological Library, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
<hecain@ormond.unimelb.edu.au>
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Ann Okerson wrote:
>
> We have in hand a license from an important journal publisher, for
> this publisher's electronic versions. It's pretty good. But therein
> is a definition that reads:
>
> "Secure" with regard to the server or Network from which access
> to Authorized Users is to be given means: only a server or
> Network or Networks over which the Institution has absolute
> control and can prevent the further distribution of material.
>
> This definition is later used in important clauses pertaining to use and
> so on. My question: This seems to me an unusually high standard
> ("absolute control") which in turn makes ultra-high expectations of
> licensing institutions -- ones that we cannot commit to. So, two
> questions:
>
> 1. Are we reading this correctly, or is there some other interpretation?
>
> 2. Are there, in fact, such secure servers/networks in academiia, ones
> over which the instituions do have absolute control? How does one create
> such a highly secure environment?
>
> Thank you, Ann Okerson
> Yale University Library
> Ann.Okerson@yale.edu
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