alt Hacker NewsNote it doesn't have to, it's just faster to.
Internet Archive scans their books one page at a time keeping the book intact and stored in a warehouse.
Note it doesn't have to, it's just faster to.
Internet Archive scans their books one page at a time keeping the book intact and stored in a warehouse.
They do: the judge in the Anthropic case said that destroying them means that the text is being transferred, and so therefore can be fair use.
> "The print original was destroyed. One replaced the other."
(I believe the reasoning is that the author is not being financially disadvantaged by more copies of their book existing).
So the current law prefers them to destroy.