California State University, Long Beach - Response Letter

"Thank you for your letter regarding Mr. Gardner, but I believe your strident criticism of him is based on some fundamental factual inaccuracies."

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"To be clear, neither Mr. Gardner, the University Library, nor the University promote or condone illegal activity, particularly copyright violation. Instead, Mr. Gardner' s research points out problems faced by libraries, researchers, and publishers and how some researchers are enabling websites such as Sci-Hub to circumvent the measures taken by libraries to uphold their copyright licenses."