It's dubious in the sense that you _are_ distributing a copy of the work. So, just like a lot of other fair uses, you have to accept that it ends up being litig

It's dubious in the sense that you _are_ distributing a copy of the work. So, just like a lot of other fair uses, you have to accept that it ends up being litigated, or forbidden when the law changes. The API copying in Oracle v. Google was also dubious in the legal sense, or it wouldn't have ended up in front of the Supreme Court. That's just what the situation was like from the legal POV ten years ago, even though it was standard practice in the field and it ended up winning nicely in the Supreme Court. Now it's not dubious anymore. > It’s not much of a stretch to apply modern technology like streaming video, interactive screen sharing, or virtual reality to the established concept of a reading room, and wind up with something like CDL That's a good point.