I still don't see why the person or company who owns the LLM would owe the book author anything more than the price of the book. Its not like the LLM is going t

I still don't see why the person or company who owns the LLM would owe the book author anything more than the price of the book. Its not like the LLM is going to output or reproduce the book in its entirety. You'll ask a relevant question, it will answer based on the data it has, not just whats in that book. Same as if you ask a human a relevant question about a book they read. Like an LLM, they can't print you a full copy of that book. They can only answer the question based on their knowledge of the book and other things.