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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by vel0city on Thursday September 05, 2024 @12:30PM (#41458188)
> I also think a sane interpretation of fair use would be that the scan is a new / derivative work that is transformative

The creative part being protected by copyright are the words, not the physical pages. You're not transforming the words; you're transforming the paper to bitmaps. All the words and concepts within them are the same. It's not transformative in the same way ripping a CD to an MP3 isn't transformative.

If I change the font for an ebook, have I meaningfully transformed it?

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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by sam0x17 on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:30PM (#41491049)
> if I change the font for an ebook, have I meaningfully transformed it?

Change one pixel and imo yes

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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by vel0city on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @05:05PM (#41505555)
How is a single pixel of difference in potentially hundreds of pages of text a meaningful change? It isn't changing the characters or story itself in the slightest.

Please, defend that point as an actual argument that it's then somehow fair use to change one pixel of an ebook and have it be a meaningfully different work.

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