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by somethingsaid 890 days ago
Yeah, fair use implicitly uses the constraints of typical human lifetime and ability to moderate how much damage is done to publishers with it. That wasn’t an issue before recently, as humans were the only ones who could create output based off fair use laws.
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> Yeah, fair use implicitly uses the constraints of typical human lifetime and ability

Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. strongly disagrees with you on that (the "Google Books case").