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Originally Posted by ApK
Presumably, any reviewer who quoted a passage only did so after reading the whole book.
They then scanned their mental database and chose a passage to quote in their review.
As I understand it, Google got the content from libraries. They are perfectly free to read the whole book, just like any other entity with access to the public library is. And just as with any other entity, it's what they DO with the info they got from reading the book that either is an infringement or isn't.
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It's functionally the same as if they created an AI that read all the books and could then could quote pasages on demand. Or if a superhuman mental giant could do the same thing.
Read.
Store in memory.
Quote.
Fair use for living beings, fair use when automated.
Automating the process does not magically make it illegal.
Good thinking by the court.