Comment by protocolture
7 months ago
I am not going to sign a contract at the bookstore. Anyone who tries to get me to sign a contract at the bookstore is just going to lose book sales. IIRC the case involved Anthropic literally feeding physical books into scanners. Your proposed solution sounds like its just going to make books worse, not AI better.
I'm not proposing any kind of solution, just stating what the law currently is. A book purchased at a store is a purchase; content obtained from online services like Bloomberg or LexisNexis is typically licensed; more and more of these license contracts include AI-focused restrictions.
I suspect IP like text is going to follow the college virtual textbook model where DRMed software is needed to access it and physical copies won't exist. Maybe some HDCP-like protection to stop screen scraping.
To access them, institutions do have to sign contracts, along with abiding by licensing terms.