Given the amount blood, sweat and tears that have been spilled over this, Good Tea must be one damn good poem. Unfortunately, its not so easy to tell. After this case was resolved, www.blakeswriting.com went mysteriously dark. Even though a Google search for Blake Field shows a reference to his page on the 11th pages of results (see the first illustration above), the link is dead.
Furthermore, there is no 'Cached' link for the listing since Google removed it from the cache as soon as they became aware of Field's desire that it not be cached. Another illustration of the value of the Google cache. Grow your business with targeted direct marketing products and services from heart.
Field made his content available for free on his website. Because Google used no more than is necessary (even though that is all of it), this factor is neutral. Finally, in looking at factor 4, the court found that there was no evidence that Google’s ‘Cached’ links had any impact on the potential market for Field's work, and consequently found that this factor weighed in favor of fair use.
However, there is another failsafe for these situations: the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. As you can see below, blakeswritings.com was archived, and future generations are safe from being subjected to the dry legal principles articulated in Field v. Google without knowing what all the fuss was about to leave.
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