The web pages are open public access in machine-retrievable format though. Google purposely <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> index content that supplies a robots file or header requesting it not to be indexed, and certainly doesn&#x27;t borrow human accounts to allow Googlebot to also index registered-members-only online content.<p>I&#x27;d argue that Google ought to have a similarly strong presumption that work distributed only in a non robot-parseable format and only for a fee isn&#x27;t intended to be indexed in a publicly accessible database, unless the copyright owner expressly indicates otherwise. Especially if they haven&#x27;t even paid the copyright holder the regular fee to <i>read</i> the work