alt Hacker News> Ideally they'd upload them to Anna's archive too
Not only can they not do that, they must scan physical copies because they are forbidden from using digital pirated copies from sources like this.
Anthropic had a big settlement because they were caught using downloaded digital copies. As a response they’ve ramped up their book scanning and others have followed.
Yeah, the very disjointed way that copyright is applied (I would argue, rights that should also transfer across to digital media but generally have not) is contributing to this situation in the first place.