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With that kind of reasoning, then it would make sense to say that no one other than people from oregon could look at them?

The way that I see it, is that they're trying to keep people from making a profit off of public property. If a site has those laws on it and they're attracting users that are seeing the ads they're getting paid for, then they're making a profit off of public works. That's not really fair.

Remember, the university of oregon is one of the very few uni's that told the RIAA to GTFO. Oregon is really super-liberal. I can't imagine them doing something like this just to be malicious. Not to mention, as another user said, they actually do own rights to the footnotes and whatnot, so that may be what they are protecting.