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What's the legality of this? Redistributing content for paid books for sale? Edit: can this data be sold?
by moneywoes 4y ago
What's the legality of this? Redistributing content for paid books for sale?
Edit: can this data be sold?
- visarga 4y agoWhy, is it quoting substantial portions from the books? Copyright covers expression, not information.
- mnkm 4y agorarely seen it quote the book verbatim. when it did it was very short snippets. it's more like talking to a person who knows the contents of the book by heart.
- nickthegreek 4y agoIs it redistributing content? I don't believe that to be the case.
- moneywoes 4y agoSelling the "books" which are training on all text, wouldn't that require some sort of license? Can I legally cut up a book, spit out certain sections and resell it?
- nickthegreek 4y agoIs there proof it is spitting out segments? I haven’t seen that. And if it was, they would still need to be long enough to not be under fair use.
- minxomat 4y agoPrecedent would be Blinkist, which AFAIK just uses an army of editors. Though, they probably _have_ contracts with the publishers
- leobg 4y agoIf they do, they’ve most likely gotten them after they became successful. Their whole business model is circumventing copyright by rephrasing the content of those books, and piggybacking on the popularity of the authors and the titles.