I'd appreciate if the down voters explain why. I wasn't making a value judgement.

Anthropic did pay more than a billion: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529404/anthropic-settl...

And is now buying up a lot of books (controversially, as scanning involves cutting their spines) because that's what the law deems the legal method: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthrop...

We know that models like Deepseek are trained on copyrighted books too: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957

The looser use of IP (eg, any characters/celebrities in AI video models) is increasingly mentioned as an advantage of overseas models.