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> Suppose I "scrape and store" every book I ever borrow or temporarily-owned, using the copies to fill several shelves in my own personal library-room. Yes, bu
by edanm 2y ago
> Suppose I "scrape and store" every book I ever borrow or temporarily-owned, using the copies to fill several shelves in my own personal library-room.
Yes, but you don't know that they did that. They could've just bought legal access to copyrighted material in many cases.
E.g. if I pay for an NYT subscription that gives me the entire back catalogue of the NYT, then I'm legally allowed to own it. Whether I'm allowed to train models on it is, of course, a new and separate (and fascinating) legal question.
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- Terr_ 2y ago> Yes, but you don't know that they did that. They could've just bought [a license to reproduce the] material in many cases. We do know they didn't, because many entities they could have bought a license from started suing them for not getting one! > If I pay for an NYT subscription that gives me the entire back catalogue of the NYT, then I'm legally allowed to own it. Almost every single service of that type is merely giving you permission to access their copy for the duration of your subscription. They are never giving you a license to duplicate the whole catalog into a perpetual personal copy.