Google, Mirroring/Replication of website

[actionsigns]

Dear all,

I am in the process of building four websites.

For the sake of argument, there is one 'master' site with 12 pages on it. This master site is hosted on its own IP address and domain name.

Under the master site, there are 3 child sites.

Each child site has 4 pages on it but which have been taken directly from the master site. And each is hosted on its own IP address and domain name.

So, each page appears twice; once on the child site, and once on the 'amalgamated' parent site.

Will Google's spider prejudice me if the content appears twice or overlaps in this way?

I want to achieve maximum Google coverage with this four pronged approach but am not sure and do not want to get the listing banned or such.

Thank you

[JulieV]

Duplicate content is what you are trying to ask here? Some said its duplicate content if you have the same exact contents on the same site. But as you said they are on a different IP address. So that's a gray area to me. Some quarters argue that duplicate content even from other sites still dups. But what i think is when you the same contents, the first one that get indexed would have all the juice or benefit and the next ones have lesser value.
Just my 2 cents

JulieV