Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoif the courts decide that scraping is illegal, IA can close up shop.
Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoif the courts decide that scraping is illegal, IA can close up shop.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They could move to a voluntary model in the worst case, they don’t profit from it. Institute a “robots.txt” style protocol for signalling intent to volunteer for scraping
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
yeah that might work, but what will happen to all the data they store currently?
_stranger_@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I would imagine someone would still need to actually sue the Internet Archive for this to be a problem for them. The vast majority probably won’t care, and they’ll likely just have to deal with whatever the equivalent of a DMCA takedown notice is for them.