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change a couple of var names, and you're good to go

also, fair use would definitely apply in this case as it's not the entire work and is a small sample. nothing different than playing a small clip/scene from a movie in a review write up. and commentary is definitely being had around said snippet



Exactly - Google themselves have been making use of fair use for a while with news exerts…


There's also the pages of the books they scanned and made available was pretty egregious. The snippets of webpages they display in search results so that users never actually have to click through to the actual website so they can get those precious impressions.

Just Googs being dicks to everyone, essentially




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