They show snippets from web sites and show subsets of books as well, including artworks and other diagrams in their entirety.
For comparison, I had to fight for a year to get copyright permission to show book cover artwork in a library enquiry system! If I simply Google the same book titles or ISBNs, Google will show me the pictures directly. E.g.: https://www.google.com/search?q=greg+egan+eon&udm=2
How is that legal!? We had to pay to get access! In public and school libraries!
The law in most western countries is very clear that book covers are "entire" works of art, and can only be displayed by organisations that pay the copyright holders.
Google, Bing, and others violate copyright on a mass scale on a daily basis. Not to mention YouTube, TikTok, and Reels, all of which are packed wall-to-wall with "movie clips" and "TV show highlights". They're publishing copyrighted content uploaded by random people and then distributing the advertising revenue to the copyright violators instead of the copyright holders.
This isn't "caching" or "indexing", it's verbatim serving.
For comparison, I had to fight for a year to get copyright permission to show book cover artwork in a library enquiry system! If I simply Google the same book titles or ISBNs, Google will show me the pictures directly. E.g.: https://www.google.com/search?q=greg+egan+eon&udm=2
How is that legal!? We had to pay to get access! In public and school libraries!
The law in most western countries is very clear that book covers are "entire" works of art, and can only be displayed by organisations that pay the copyright holders.
Google, Bing, and others violate copyright on a mass scale on a daily basis. Not to mention YouTube, TikTok, and Reels, all of which are packed wall-to-wall with "movie clips" and "TV show highlights". They're publishing copyrighted content uploaded by random people and then distributing the advertising revenue to the copyright violators instead of the copyright holders.
This isn't "caching" or "indexing", it's verbatim serving.