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What if 100 person independently loaded one page of a 100 page book?

The full work is available, but no individual can be blamed with infringement under your interpretation.</devils_advocate>



These kinds of tricks hardly ever pass muster. The law isn't that stupid.


Sounds like a conspiracy to commit copyright infringement to me!


They can't

See p. 9:

"one of the snippets on each page is "black-listed," meaning it will not be shown; and at least one out of ten entire pages in each book is black-listed... An "attacker" who tries to obtain an entire book by using a physical copy of the book to string together words appearing in successive passages would be able to obtain at best a patchwork of snippets that would be missing at least one snippet from every page and 10% of all pages. (Pl. Resp. ¶ 41). In addition, works with text organized in short "chunks," such as dictionaries, cookbooks, and books ofhaiku, are excluded from snippet view. "


Spot checking the first Hunger Games book on Google, it only displays the first 50 pages or so.




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