IANAL but the issues seem depressingly similar to this (maybe an actual lawyer can enlighten me): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tr

IANAL but the issues seem depressingly similar to this (maybe an actual lawyer can enlighten me): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t... Once in Google Legal, I found a snippet of a book that looked promising for patent-busting. I really had to read the book to know if it was worth buying a legal copy of it. Out of 100 possibilities you run across in searching, maybe one is actually worth it. You can't tell until you read it. The same is true of scholarly articles, btw. Of course, the old Books project had it on disk, like they have almost every book ever published. They told me I could come over to the actual cubicle of one of the engineers and read it there; they could not even send me an URL. That's how tightly access was controlled. I don't remember why I didn't. Maybe the case changed, or I didn't need it after all.