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by monocasa 480 days ago
The industry is banking on Author's Guild v. Google to be precedent in such a way that it's functionally transformative enough to be a completely new work.

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

I think they have about a coin flip of a chance that it passes muster in the courts.