[lwswl]

I believe there are certain large corporations(far larger then Harper Collins et al.) which would benefit from an enlarging of the domain of fair use around now.

Those pockets are large, and the display of the dollar does more to sway Judges than any real interpretation of the law.

It is safe to say that they will succeed in their (seemingly useless) endeavor.

[twblalock]

> I believe there are certain large corporations(far larger then Harper Collins et al.) which would benefit from an enlarging of the domain of fair use around now.

Who are those corporations and how would they benefit?

[wmf]

Tech is far larger than publishing and there's potentially more money to be made organizing/consuming the world's information than in owning it. Some people have been pointing this out for 20 years.

[jl6]

For example, Apple could buy News Corporation (the parent company of HarperCollins, one of the litigants) with a single quarter’s profits. Not revenue, profit.

News Corporation enterprise value: $11bn

Apple quarterly profit: $25bn

[twblalock]

Yes but why should Apple do that? How would Apple benefit from doing that?

[jl6]

They could use all the books as a loss leader for the Apple ecosystem, similar to how Google Maps spends billions on data that is made available for “free”.