It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use
http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-sign-of-times-that-amazon-gets-to.html
http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-sign-of-times-that-amazon-gets-to.html
6 Comments
Antagnostic@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
They are buying them? That's actually surprising. I thought stealing them was deemed legal already.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1d
No, that was never the case. Anthropic got told in court that using copyrighted works that they had legally procured for model training was fair use, but since they had used a pirated data set, they got ruled against - there's no fair use protection for things you haven't actually bought. Subsequently, they settled that lawsuit for $1.5B
Antagnostic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Yeah, thanks for clarifying. I was more saying it with tongue in cheek as a jab at meta's bittorrenting books, which even itself isn't settled.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7h
It would be cool if those sorts of settlements hurt them the same way it would hurt your average person.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 1 pts · 6h
There does indeed seem to be some level of disproportionality going on here, yeah.
hneerqe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 13h
oh look, a scanning method that doesn't destroy the books. Surely it's science fiction.