> is not established law anywhere in this solar system Fair Use is the main doctrine relevant in this situation, and does not inherently distinguish between ma

> is not established law anywhere in this solar system Fair Use is the main doctrine relevant in this situation, and does not inherently distinguish between manual and automated creation. Use of traditional algorithms, like the caching/thumbnailing/snippeting done by search engines, is already covered by it. There are cases where "but it's not human" makes sense because the relevant law does make that distinction (e.g: registering a work for copyright in the US depends on human authorship), but I think it's a fairly weak point in this case. You could instead argue that it's not solely "doing something a human can do" and how that impacts on the Fair Use factors.