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"Access to collections in the Department of Distinctive Collections is not authorization to publish. Separate written application for permission to publish must be made to Distinctive Collections. Copyright of some items in this collection may be held by respective creators, not by the creating office."
So, I don't know, does seem a bit on the legal edge?
I think the publishers have decided that no lawyer/IP owner worth their salt would make a case of this and publishing is a benefit to historical computing.
This should be terrible of course, but for some reason the fall to the ground calculated based on the rate of change of the graph... so this takes a really long time to fall down giving you lots of time to traverse.