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> "Instead, it was a fair use because all Anthropic did was replace the print copies it had purchased for its central library with more convenient space-saving
by hiatus 1y ago
> "Instead, it was a fair use because all Anthropic did was replace the print copies it had purchased for its central library with more convenient space-saving and searchable digital copies for its central library — without adding new copies, creating new works, or redistributing existing copies."
> Did Alsup just declare emulators as legal? Assuming you ripped the rom yourself, all you're doing is playing the game in a more convenient manor.
Wasn't this always allowed? That is, making copies of something you own for your own use so long as you aren't distributing methods of circumventing digital controls.
- JohnFen 1y ago> That is, making copies of something you own for your own use so long as you aren't distributing methods of circumventing digital controls. Yes. Aside from the terrible DMCA anti-circumvention rules, copyright is about redistribution, not literal copying. I can legally make copies of anything I legally own a copy of all day long. I just can't put those copies in the hands of anyone else (mostly -- I actually can, but I have to treat the original and all of the copies as an indivisible unit, so if I give, sell, or lend a copy to someone else, I have to include the original and all other copies with it).