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eschaton
52 days ago
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Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlem...
In general buying books and scanning them for this type of use would *also* be copyright infringement.
adrr
52 days ago
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No. Thats fair use. Format shifting is fair use as affirmed by RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia which was about ripping CDs to MP3s.
eschaton
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…for personal use, just as timeshifting was with MPAA v. Sony. Neither were about commercial use/exploitation.
adrr
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Meta case just affirmed that training an LLM is fair use under transformative use. Alsom, Google's indexing(transformative use) of scanned books is settled law with Authors Guild v. Google.
eschaton
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And Roe v. Wade was settled law too, until it wasn’t.
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