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by duckmysick 1816 days ago
What about Google Books Ngram Viewer? Isn't that a derivative work based on copyrighted content? It's more than just a search or preview - it contains both novel information and snippets of existing content. Is linguistic corpus a special case?

https://books.google.com/ngrams

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

The research value actually turned activity that would be infringing into activity that was not infringing. Take away things like the ngram viewer and Google Books infringes.