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pantropy | 3 months ago

Technically speaking none of Goodreads material or content is being used publically, the only information displayed on the site is freely available (Title, Author) and not Goodread's property.

You could try to argue that this falls under "create derivative works from any materials or content accessible on the Service" but even then it seems really flimsy to say that recommending books based on Goodread reviews is an infringemnt.

It's just not that different to a youtuber saying "I read reviews for 50 books, here's the ones to read"

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voidUpdate|3 months ago

I'd be impressed if a youtuber could read 3 billion reviews and recommend books to you based on that

tonyhart7|3 months ago

what about youtuber that build a machine that scrape 3 billions books and make recommendation based on the data????

croes|3 months ago

I visit your garden and take 1 apple from your tree

I visit your garden and take 1000 apples from your tree.

Not that different.

kemotep|3 months ago

Not only am I taking 1,000 apples, but I use those 1,000 apples to start my own orchard and encourage people to come to it instead of yours.

jalk|3 months ago

Not a great analogy, since a digital copy leaves the original intact unlike your apples

petralithic|3 months ago

For every apple I take, you still have your apple on the tree, because my apple is only a copy of yours.