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

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418 points pyman | 2 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.852s | source
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bgwalter ◴[07 Jul 25 14:38 UTC] No.44490836[source]▶
Here is how individuals are treated for massive copyright infringement:

https://investors.autodesk.com/news-releases/news-release-de...

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stocksinsmocks ◴[07 Jul 25 19:41 UTC] No.44493925[source]▶
Anthropic isn’t selling copies of the material to its users though. I would think you couldn’t lock someone up for reading a book and summarizing or reciting portions of the contents.

Seven years for thumbing your nose at Autodesk when armed robbery would get you less time says some interesting things about the state of legal practice.

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1. burnt-resistor ◴[07 Jul 25 22:23 UTC] No.44495221[source]▶
I'm wondering though how the law will construe AI able to make a believable sequel to Moby Dick after digesting Herman Melville's works. (Or replace Melville with a modern writer.)
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2. markhahn ◴[08 Jul 25 01:02 UTC] No.44496025[source]▶
existing copyright law seems to say you cannot help yourself to significant parts of a work - such as to write your own sequel. I have no idea how the courts establish the degree of copying "owned" by the original author. There would clearly be stories in some way related to Moby Dick that would be legal, but others that were too close.