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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,....



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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