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From the article: "Doing these kinds of analyses is notoriously imprecise, in some cases amounting to little more than guesswork." That is does not paint a ver
by sjsivak 16y ago
From the article: "Doing these kinds of analyses is notoriously imprecise, in some cases amounting to little more than guesswork."
That is does not paint a very good picture, and when looking into the actual report and what industries are considered: "...rise of the digital economy, as fair use permits a range of activities that are critical to many high technology businesses, including search portals and web hosting."
I would bet that any user-generated content website is considered, and who knows what else.
- pmccool 16y agoFair point. I still think it works as a kind of reductio ad absurdum of the claims about the cost of so-called piracy, which rest on similarly shaky foundations.
- _delirium 16y agoI agree parts are sketchy, but lots have some basis if you take a hardline no-fair-use-at-all scenario as the alternative. It's not clear that, absent fair use, Google's index would be legal: you can't generally make your own local copies of copyrighted texts, even for private use, and even only for the purpose of searching them. Certainly the snippets they display on results pages rely on fair use. And you can reasonably say that, if indexing the web were illegal, that would have a significant negative effect on the economy.