The ruling explicitly says that scanning books and keeping/using those digital copies is legal.
The piracy found to be illegal was downloading unauthorized copies of books from the internet for free.
Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 22 hours ago
Good luck breaking down people’s doors for scanning their own physical books when analog media has no DRM and can’t phone home, and paper books are an analog medium.
booly@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
deltapi@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I wonder if the archive.org cases had any bearing on the decision.
booly@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Archive.org was distributing the books themselves to users. Anthropic argued (and the authors suing them weren’t able to show otherwise) that their software prevents users from actually retrieving books out of the LLM, and that it only will produce snippets of text from copyrighted works. And producing snippets in the context of something else is fair use, like commentary or criticism.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
It sounds like transferring an owned print book to digital and using it to train AI was deemed permissable. But downloading a book from the Internet and using it was training data is not allowed, even if you later purchase the pirated book. So, no one will be knocking down your door for scanning your books.
This does raise an interesting case where libraries could end up training and distributing public domain AI models.
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I would actually be okay with libraries having those AI services. Even if they were available only for a fee it would be absurdly low and still waived for people with low or no income.