alt Hacker NewsThey didn't just "read" the books. They scanned every single page of every single book in the library, then took the scans home.
Are humans allowed to do that?
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gield • today at 8:01 AM
What do you mean with "then took the scans home"? Anthropic et al didn't buy all the books in the world and kept them for themselves.
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Yes!
Creating personal copies of copyrighted works are allowed. (Also, libraries really don't mind if you take pictures of the content of works they have.)