Copying files of scanned books isn’t worth a 1T dollar fine
Maybe Anthropic should have paid attention to the law that has $150k statutory damages per violation if the infringement is willful. So much cheaper just to buy the books and scan it instead of violating a law that has a statutory damage clause.
In general buying books and scanning them for this type of use would *also* be copyright infringement.
No. Thats fair use. Format shifting is fair use as affirmed by RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia which was about ripping CDs to MP3s.
…for personal use, just as timeshifting was with MPAA v. Sony. Neither were about commercial use/exploitation.
Meta case just affirmed that training an LLM is fair use under transformative use. Alsom, Google's indexing(transformative use) of scanned books is settled law with Authors Guild v. Google.