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Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's ...
You are asking a judge to consider that a book is ok to scrape because it's part of a much larger collection of books, perhaps the biggest and best collection, and therefore it's all OK because at scale means good.
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4 days ago
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Google already successfully argued in court that creating an online search index of books constitutes fair use:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,...
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The index isn't the full content. The OP search is about indexing the entire contents of the book for verbatim information retrieval.
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