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IANAL as well, but this notion of "fair use" seems slippy. I had a look in the French article that lists some exceptions that allow sharing copyrighted material, and did not find any obvious match with the potential shared database.

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte...




I was under the impression that for purposes of research, fair use is pretty broad. So perhaps you could explore that angle.




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