I would hazard a guess that the eBook did not exist for the physical books they bought. Still, that doesn’t excuse their actions, nor the bigger issues with training LLMs
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B0rax@feddit.org 1 month agoThey could have just bought the ebooks…
Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 month ago
blindsight@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Nope. Ebooks are a license, so the First Sale Doctrine does not apply. Buying ebooks is nearly useless, legally.