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Yes search engines are a good analog. Are search engines allowed to index and make copyrighted works searchable, _without_ permission from the cooyright holder?
by mongol 3y ago
Yes search engines are a good analog. Are search engines allowed to index and make copyrighted works searchable, _without_ permission from the cooyright holder? I seem to recall that Google did not get it their way with Google Books?
- sebzim4500 3y agoGoogle won the Google Books case. And they were actively scanning books rather than just indexing the internet like OpenAI is.
- ang_cire 3y agoThey were scanning books they had legally-obtained copies of. OpenAI is very often downloading whole books which they do not have licenses for. Publicly-accessible does not equal legal to download, in US copyright law.