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Don't do it. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Do you know if they have anywhere near the legal muscle to push back the flood of legal notices if y
by 1970-01-01 1y ago
Don't do it. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Do you know if they have anywhere near the legal muscle to push back the flood of legal notices if you did this? Assume it survives because it doesn't have a wide open barn door to the public.
- bethekidyouwant 1y agoIt wouldn’t be called full text search of AA, It would be called full tech search of every book in the world.
- 1970-01-01 1y agoYou are asking a judge to consider that a book is ok to scrape because it's part of a much larger collection of books, perhaps the biggest and best collection, and therefore it's all OK because at scale means good.
- calibas 1y agoGoogle already successfully argued in court that creating an online search index of books constitutes fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
- 1970-01-01 1y agoThe index isn't the full content. The OP search is about indexing the entire contents of the book for verbatim information retrieval.