PerfectDark@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoAI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare booksgardinerbryant.comexternal-linkmessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up1541arrow-down112cross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
arrow-up1529arrow-down1external-linkAI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare booksgardinerbryant.comPerfectDark@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square73linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmit.online
minus-squarekbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·2 months agoThey destroy them to comply with fair use laws. A judge in San Francisco ruled this practice as fair use.
minus-squarefruitycoder@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoDo you have a case to cite for that? Not calling you out or anything but I want know who the hell ruled that and why. That’s insane
minus-squarekbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoHere you go https://www.newsnationnow.com/entertainment-news/entertainment-headlines/ap-judge-rules-ai-company-anthropic-didnt-break-copyright-law-but-must-face-trial-over-pirated-books/
minus-squarefruitycoder@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThank you! Though it doesn’t seem the judge imposed any requirement to destroy the physical copies just that creating a large digital library from the copies for reuse would violate the IP rights of the work owners
minus-squaredil@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoI think rare here may just mean misprints or something else rather than them destroying the one and only copy of books
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoNo, they plunder antiquitarian book shops around the globe. There exist very few copies of those books around and they sure aren’t digitized anywhere.
They destroy them to comply with fair use laws. A judge in San Francisco ruled this practice as fair use.
Do you have a case to cite for that? Not calling you out or anything but I want know who the hell ruled that and why. That’s insane
Here you go
https://www.newsnationnow.com/entertainment-news/entertainment-headlines/ap-judge-rules-ai-company-anthropic-didnt-break-copyright-law-but-must-face-trial-over-pirated-books/
Thank you! Though it doesn’t seem the judge imposed any requirement to destroy the physical copies just that creating a large digital library from the copies for reuse would violate the IP rights of the work owners
I think rare here may just mean misprints or something else rather than them destroying the one and only copy of books
No, they plunder antiquitarian book shops around the globe. There exist very few copies of those books around and they sure aren’t digitized anywhere.