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I'm not sure how to explain this any clearer: Humans and machines are legally distinct. Machines don't have the rights that humans have.


Fair Use is the relevant protection and is not specific to manual creation. Traditional algorithms (e.g: the snippets, caching, and thumbnailing done by search engines) are already covered by it.




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