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Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

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398 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.315s | source
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ramon156 ◴[07 Jul 25 10:42 UTC] No.44488798[source]▶
Pirate and pay the fine is probably hell of a lot cheaper than individually buying all these books. I'm not saying this is justified, but what would you have done in their situation?

Sayi "they have the money" is not an argument. It's about the amount of effort that is needed to individually buy, scan, process millions of pages. If that's done for you, why re-do it all?

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TimorousBestie ◴[07 Jul 25 10:55 UTC] No.44488878[source]▶
150K per work is the maximum fine for willful infringement (which this is).

105B+ is more than Anthropic is worth on paper.

Of course they’re not going to be charged to the fullest extent of the law, they’re not a teenager running Napster in the early 2000s.

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1. voxic11 ◴[07 Jul 25 13:55 UTC] No.44490409[source]▶
Even if they don't qualify for willful infringement damages (lets say they have a good faith belief their infringement was covered by fair use) the standard statutory damages for copyright infringement are $750-$30,000 per work.