You're very eager to focus on both my character (moral panic) and your inability to address my point (can't follow your logic). Maybe you can see my logic, maybe you can't. I'm also apparently suicidal lol. I think you should just ask for clarification instead of deliberately painting me as the bad guy.

Anyways, the transformative use has not been decided yet. I am also pretty sure that google books are not simply publishing entire works for free, as far as I can tell when books get published in electronic form in their entirety without the copyright owners permissions, things get dodgy. I don't remember reading a full book on google books unless the licensing was permissive or otherwise available. Is there not some limits on fair use? Why do I keep reading about these "libraries" getting shut down? What about all the sample clearing in the music business, are you somehow implying that doesn't exist? Heck, the "blurred lines" case failed because the guy merely mentioned the infringed work.

Furthermore, I view the AI thing as the AI proponents want to grant AI's "personhood," ie., just call them trained painters, trained authors, trained musicians, whatever, its not like I'm unable to see both sides of the arguments. Let the guy with the most silicon corner the market in these areas lol