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by luma 883 days ago
If a human isn't violating the law when doing that thing, then how is the machine violating the law when it cannot even hold copyright itself?
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In some locales sitting on the street writing down a list of people coming and going is legal, but leaving a camera pointed at the street isn't. Legislation like that makes a distinction between an action by a person (which has bounds on scalability) and mechanized actions (that do not).
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.