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yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Copyright law doesn’t allow them to sell the books. It’s almost certainly a violation to scan books for their content and then sell them.

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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Copyright law also doesn’t allow them to download the entirety of a piracy database of books. But here we are, they clearly don’t care about copyright law.

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- yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They didn’t care at first. The only reason they began destructively scanning books is because they started to care about copyright law:
  
  Anthropic first chose to amass digitized versions of pirated books to avoid what CEO Dario Amodei called “legal/practice/business slog”—the complex licensing negotiations with publishers. But by 2024, Anthropic had become “not so gung ho about” using pirated ebooks “for legal reasons” and needed a safer source.
  
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