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It's not that cut and dry or else search engines wouldn't be legal. It depends on how much is used, for what context, etc. This very well may wind up being fair
by burnte 20d ago
It's not that cut and dry or else search engines wouldn't be legal. It depends on how much is used, for what context, etc. This very well may wind up being fair use.
- dismalaf 20d agoSearch engines "modify" it ie. show snippets + direct to the actual site. In general fair use pretty much always requires it to be transformative and/or point to the source. Simply scraping it to prevent people from going to X isn't free use in any definition I've heard.
- gosub100 20d agoRemember ~10 years ago when Google had "cached" versions of the websites? I believe they removed that feature for this reason.