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Comment I can't believe Slashdot has come to this ... (Score 1) 83

.. or, rather, that Slashdotters have come this: are y'all arguing for the current fucked up copyright system, and indeed more of it?

Is this place now packed with a bunch of Zoomers who have been slurping up "muh IP law" propaganda from the bigcorps their whole lives?

Or are most of you completely ignorant about the purpose of copyright in the first place?

I for one am happy to see fair use get a fair shake in the courts.

Comment Re: What if they had bought the books? (Score 1) 92

You're muddying the waters by failing to respond to what people are writing. You're also trying to contradict Judge Alsup in his summary judgment (emphasis added):

To summarize the analysis that now follows, the use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. And, the digitization of the books purchased in print form by Anthropic was also a fair use but not for the same reason as applies to the training copies. 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. However, Anthropic had no entitlement to use pirated copies for its central library. Creating a permanent, general-purpose library was not itself a fair use excusing Anthropic’s piracy.

Maybe you know better than a judge highly experienced in complex IP law?

Comment Re:Looks perfect to me (Score 1) 92

Write to your congressperson, that's how the law works and how it is supposed to work.

Judge Alsup is unequivocal in his summary judgment on this point (emphasis added):

To summarize the analysis that now follows, the use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. And, the digitization of the books purchased in print form by Anthropic was also a fair use but not for the same reason as applies to the training copies. 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. However, Anthropic had no entitlement to use pirated copies for its central library. Creating a permanent, general-purpose library was not itself a fair use excusing Anthropic’s piracy.

Comment Re:AI companies are RIPPING OFF Artists and Writer (Score 2) 92

Fine, but let's rationalize copyright law first. Effectively permanent copyright goes against the purpose it was created for in the first place, for starters.

Thomas Babbington Macaulay got it right way back in 1841: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepublicdomain.org%2F2014%2F07%2F24%2Fmacaulay-on-copyright%2F

Comment Re:Surprisingly illogical (Score 3, Informative) 92

You need to read the decision before commenting. It's a model of clarity, which Alsup summarizes thusly:

To summarize the analysis that now follows, the use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. And, the digitization of the books purchased in print form by Anthropic was also a fair use but not for the same reason as applies to the training copies. 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. However, Anthropic had no entitlement to use pirated copies for its central library. Creating a permanent, general-purpose library was not itself a fair use excusing Anthropic’s piracy.

The sort of copying you appear to be talking about, namely ephemeral "copies" made in computer memory etc,. has long been established as fair use.

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