Ah, indeed I conflated the "transformative" part from the book scanning, which makes them searchable. That's definitely a value-addition of the process, to me.

Ah, indeed I conflated the "transformative" part from the book scanning, which makes them searchable. That's definitely a value-addition of the process, to me. Oh well, I'll leave the comment as it stands, flawed as it may be. As far as signing a ToS / license, yeah you're right in principle, but I have no doubt that right will, as it was in this case, be under heavy legal artillery for the foreseeable future. Even the NFL hasn't bothered to change their tune with their "...is prohibited" disclaimer, which is fundamentally unenforceable. Maybe if that kind of dishonest truth stretching were an actionable offense, the stakes would be a little higher and cases more interesting.