> Regardless, I distrust anyone that says without hesitation that they
> know this case was rightly solved or wrongly solved 

Amen to that, and to the complexities of international law!

Here are two more 'interesting' questions, totally unrelated to the 
google case. I don't expect answers, they serve only to show how 
complicated or unresolved legal things can be.

- US copyright law has a blanket permission to use material for 
educational purposes. Microchip explicitly acknowledges this in their 
copyright explanation on their website. Dutch law (my country) has no 
such exception: Dutch education institutions pay a per-page fee for 
using Dutch copyrighted material. Which rule applies to me reproducing 
Microchip datasheets, for educational purposes, in my country? I have 
asked a copyright lawyer and he did not know (he suggested that that 
there simply might be no answer to be found in current laws and treaties)

- I have a webshop based in the Netherlands. Which countries' law 
applies when I sell something to someone in, let's say, Japan? If that 
seems easy (a lawyer I asked said it is definitely not) add the 
complication that we might use paypal (which used to be US based) to do 
the payment.

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