> Why doesn't Google need licensing to scrape and reproduce NYT snippets in their results? Because Google established that it was fair use in a court of law.

> Why doesn't Google need licensing to scrape and reproduce NYT snippets in their results? Because Google established that it was fair use in a court of law. > Any given content site has authors that read stuff that is copyrighted and produce their own take. That's fine as long as you're human, if you're a machine then it's a purely mechanical process and subject to copyright.