That's not surprising to me at all. Even in the 2000s there was a famous lawsuit about Google Books scanning books without approval and the proposed settlement

That's not surprising to me at all. Even in the 2000s there was a famous lawsuit about Google Books scanning books without approval and the proposed settlement was essentially allowing Google to sell scanned ebooks while giving copyright holders a cut[0]. At that time Google truly felt like don't-be-evil corporation, and lawyers for the copyright holders wanted to give Google all this data as long as Google pays the copyright holders. In the 2020s however I cannot imagine any Big Tech company to have that don't-be-evil spirit and I also cannot imagine them voluntarily paying anything to copyright holders. [0]: https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happened-to-google-books https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/what-ever-happen...