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Can you explain? The First Sale doctrine means its OK to sell books after you're done with them. I would think it would be the scanning itself that could be a copyright problem, not the disposition of the physical book after.
I thought the real reason, the main reason, was, as the article says, "Destroying books is cheaper."
I agree that the concern over the destruction of physical books, and what impact that will have on their availability, is probably exaggerated. Heck, the actual importance of old books to the AI companies may be exaggerated, that seems to be their hype style.
404 media reported this recently. Excerpt from the article :
Then they plagarize that data though, using it without attribution or payment, which is aganst copyright law. If a person did this they would be stopped. Because it's big money, the law doesn't apply.
Now you've entered the land of fairy tales and make believe. A person who memorizes a book and then burns it and then recites to others would in fact not be put in front of a firing squad like you want to.
Not saying corporations are people (they are though) but they are literally not doing anything else than that. Now they only have to teach the AI to learn double think, to learn from the book, but then forget the book, only to be able to remember what that book was about, while being unable to faithfully repeat it.
That's literally going to solve any and all problems with AI. It's not like we should demand meaningful regulations about the actual problems like authoritarian China does. You know, because, think of the book publishers. They are people too!
If a person reproduced copyrighted works and sold them, they could be sued under patent law. In the US, and in all of europe that I'm aware, at least in the west. In Japan, in South Korea, and a host of other countries.
Reciting a book is one thing, reproducing parts of it for commercial gain is another and is absolutely a violation of patent law. Just as a musician that takes a song and changes the lyrics and beat a bit and releases it would be sued.
Do you understand the difference?