I've been using archive.org for (maybe) two decades. Using TheWayBackMAchine (which is awesome) and downloading bootlegged music concerts. More recently I saw some Tarkovsky movies on the site - they were Criterion collection if I remember correctly - and at that time I did wonder about the situation of copyright (previously I'd always assumed they were doing things by the book).
The early days of my using that resource predated Google mass-scanning project. Perhaps Google's activity stretched the bounds of what was "acceptable".
But what's the issue at hand right now? They've made their library open access? And... the library contains books that have somehow been scoured from the internet, judging that their free-access somewhere online means they're effectively
free everywhere (in much the same way that non copy-writed content is.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Why does Google need to scan an entire copyright work to produce a web snippet? I think we can all work out why.
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I haven't been following this issue. What's the "why"? In the future, they have can position themselves to replace publishing houses?