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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 days ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Aren't copyright laws awesome?

Buy digital copy... no you can't, you can only license one
Buy physical book, now you have a copy
Want a digital copy? No you can't, copyright forbids it...
...unless you destroy the physical copy in the process, then it's only a format migration
Donating the books after digitizing, would be "stealing"!

And still, they are suing them for migrating formats without authorization 🤦

All hail Disney's lobbying and the 150 year copyright term!

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

Oh, copyright is for sure fucked, but until we have UBI it is about all we have to potentially protect small artists