It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use while huge corporations try to sue the Internet Archive out of business.
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This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training dat...
  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The legal justification being made by these companies to give themselves cover is that because they’re destroying the books after scanning and training the AI, they’re transforming the work, not copying, and thus it is covered by fair use.