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		burnt-resistor 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downl... So not only did they pirate works but they destroyed possibly collectible physical copies too. Kafkaesque.

bigyabai 7 months ago [–]

Google set the precedent for this with an even less transformative use case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

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