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Does the subscription count at all, towards “selling”?


Seems unlikely. You can hire someone to write you stuff that violates copyright, like fanfiction. It is unlikely that any court would find that the purpose / character of that use is commercial in nature; nor that the effect of creating it would have any effect on the potential market for the original.

Even if someone is generating a new novel for themselves to read every day, it doesn’t seem likely to pass those tests so long as they are not distributing it.




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