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

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393 points pyman | 2 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.654s | source
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trinsic2 ◴[07 Jul 25 15:16 UTC] No.44491270[source]▶
I'm not seeing how this is fair use in either case.

Someone correct me if I am wrong but aren't these works being digitized and transformed in a way to make a profit off of the information that is included in these works?

It would be one thing for an individual to make person use of one or more books, but you got to have some special blindness not to see that a for-profit company's use of this information to improve a for-profit model is clearly going against what copyright stands for.

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1. kristofferR ◴[07 Jul 25 15:36 UTC] No.44491457[source]▶
What do you think fair use is? The whole point of the fair use clauses is that if you transform copyrighted works enough you don't have to pay the original copyright holder.
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2. kube-system ◴[07 Jul 25 18:38 UTC] No.44493373[source]▶
Fair use is not, at its core, about transformation. It's about many types of uses that do not interfere with the reasons for the rights we ascribe to authors. Fair use doesn't require transformation.