alt Hacker NewsBut that scan is never made available to us in its original form. So it getting scanned by the AI company does nothing to preserve the book.
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dukeyukey • today at 6:26 AM
If it were legal they may well do that as a public branding exercise. Google already tried and got punished for it!
skeledrew • today at 6:08 AM
It was never available to you/us in the original form either.
red75prime • today at 5:50 AM
...because it is illegal to copy copyrighted material. 70 years later they might do it.
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Dumpsters also don't typically come equipped with a robot scanner and network uplink built in.
Like, I really don't know what people objecting to this imagine typically happens to old, unwanted books. They don't get sent to some magical library in the countryside if unpurchased where they are carefully maintained forever (next to where Rover spends the rest of his days). They are very literally thrown into the trash.
That said, I'd be thrilled if the US government required AI companies to make them available to the public. I'd even settle for the US government making it legal for them to.