There are multiple ways to look at this, but for example, my middle European country's laws explicitly state that breaking copyright is okay, if the material is used for teaching purposes. Downloading for personal use is also allowed.
Are they breaking the laws of the country where they host their own data? I can't really say.
In honesty, I don't believe copyright laws will survive this decade, much less this century. With models being trained on copyrighted material and no cases setting the precendent that this is not okay, I feel like the new reality is that you can steal anything, as long as you 'launder' it through an AI model.
Maybe that may be the next big startup, re-creating copyrighted books through AI models, just different enough to skirt the laws. Who wouldn't like to read 'Owner of Numerous Pieces of Jewelery' instead of 'Lord of the Rings'?
There are places that have a minimal or no formal recognition of IP rights. Not counting stateless or breakaway regions like Transnistria and Sealand, countries like Somalia and South Sudan either do not have a government-run IP system, or in the case of South Sudan are not part of the Berne Convention. I doubt that Anna's Archive operates in one of these places, but there are still safe harbors for their mission.
There are multiple ways to look at this, but for example, my middle European country's laws explicitly state that breaking copyright is okay, if the material is used for teaching purposes. Downloading for personal use is also allowed.
Are they breaking the laws of the country where they host their own data? I can't really say.
In honesty, I don't believe copyright laws will survive this decade, much less this century. With models being trained on copyrighted material and no cases setting the precendent that this is not okay, I feel like the new reality is that you can steal anything, as long as you 'launder' it through an AI model.
Maybe that may be the next big startup, re-creating copyrighted books through AI models, just different enough to skirt the laws. Who wouldn't like to read 'Owner of Numerous Pieces of Jewelery' instead of 'Lord of the Rings'?
There are places that have a minimal or no formal recognition of IP rights. Not counting stateless or breakaway regions like Transnistria and Sealand, countries like Somalia and South Sudan either do not have a government-run IP system, or in the case of South Sudan are not part of the Berne Convention. I doubt that Anna's Archive operates in one of these places, but there are still safe harbors for their mission.