alt Hacker News> The award was $3,000 per book, which is about 100X higher than it would have cost to buy the books.
How many of the authors would license their book for endless creation of derivative works for that amount?
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protocolture • yesterday at 10:02 PM
I dont see the relevance. If Anthropic had bought the book at the store, shredded the spine, scanned the pages and trained on that data instead, there wouldnt have been an issue.
Authors cant simply license away fair use. If it could be dismissed so easily the right wouldn't exist.
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paulddraper • yesterday at 9:44 PM
Probably few, but irrelevant as the ruling was it was not a derivative work.
The judge already ruled that it was fair for Anthropic to use books for training if they acquired them legally.