FWIW, Philip Bloom appears to be British and we don’t have “fair use” per se. We have “fair dealing”, which is more limited.
no. use of his clips probably isnt transformative enough.
And the “Purpose and character of the use” is strictly commercial (even if internal to the company).
If it was just some rando on the Internet being accused of clipping someone's youtube for a yoga video or whatever, sure. But this is HN and the perp is Google, so they must burn.
Presumably because HN understands the difference between a private citizen and a huge multinational corporation.