If they actually want it to work as intelligently as possible, they'll begin taking these complaints into consideration and building in a wisdom curating feature where people can contribute.

This much is obvious, but they seem to be satisfied with theory over practicality.

Anyway I'm just ranting b/c they haven't paid me.

How about an off the wall algorithm to estimate how much each scraped input turns out to influence the bigger picture, as a way to work towards satisfying the copyright question.