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Re:Brave Search beta by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:08AM (#27603483)
> While scraping the results for yourself to look at might be OK, scraping results to display verbatim in another search engine without permission stretches fair use.

No, it doesn't, because Google results aren't copyrightable, hence, there is no such thing as fair use. It's just information anyone is free to collect and use as they see fit.

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Re:Brave Search beta by lern_too_spel on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:34AM (#27605020)
Why would rankings not be copyrightable?
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Re:Brave Search beta by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @07:04PM (#27611676)
Why would they be? Again, if all things being copyrightable by default, Google could not even exist, they assume they have the right to consume any data they want.

If a monkey can't copyright a selfie because they're not a person, an algorithmically generated spew of stuff Google ripped from elsewhere certainly lacks merit for copyright.

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Re:Brave Search beta by lern_too_spel on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:34AM (#27614875)
All things are copyrighted by default. Once again, those websites grant a license to search engines to consume their content via robots.txt, and Google does not.
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