It’s all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want

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    4 days ago

    How lossy can it be until it’s not infringement? One-line summary of some book is also a lossy reproduction

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      3 days ago

      IANAL, and it will depend on jurisdiction. But generally transformative uses that are a completely different application, and don’t compete with the original are likely to be fair use. A one-line summary is probably more likely to promote the full book, not replace it. A multi-paragraph summary might replace the book if all the key messages are covered off.

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        2 days ago

        Not quite related to the topic, but I encountered several ‘books’ that can be replaced by several paragraphs of text, and this is almost as bad as making three hours video instruction where 30 seconds or a bit of text would suffice. I find it horrible that such ones are written at all