AI Firms Are Buying Up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them

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ompogUe•42 minutes ago

Once again, see Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. Foresaw exactly this. Written in 2006, takes place in 2025.

trhway•about 3 hours ago

"...Internal documents unsealed in legal filings in January revealed that Anthropic was acutely aware of how negatively such a project would be received outside the company.

“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” ..."

ronsor•about 1 hour ago

Don't like it? Change copyright.

They do this because the law required it.

jdiff•34 minutes ago

They ignored the same copyright laws in many other cases. Why do we believe they were abiding strictly by it this time?

4gotunameagain•about 1 hour ago

What did the law require ?

And since when do AI companies care about copyright law ?

ceejayoz•18 minutes ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

> After the initial transfer of ownership of a legal copy of a copyrighted work, the first-sale doctrine eliminates the copyright holder's right to control ownership of that specific copy.

AI Firms Are Buying Up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying Them

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