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No. The paragraph as a whole refers to the "outputs" of vast troves of copyrighted work.

Disk size is irrelevant. If you lossy-compress a copyrighted bitmap image to small JPEG image and then sell the JPEG image, it's still copyright infringement.



I won't say it's irrelevant. How much you use is part of fair use considerations. Their huge collections of copyrighted works make them look worse in legal analyses.




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