Comment by pyman
6 months ago
With Claude, people are paying Anthropic to access answers that are generated from pirated books, without the authors permission, credit, or compensation.
6 months ago
With Claude, people are paying Anthropic to access answers that are generated from pirated books, without the authors permission, credit, or compensation.
There is no copyright on knowledge.
If it outputs parts of the book verbatim then that's a different story.
Let's don't change the focus of the debate.
Pirating 7 million books, remixing their content, and using that to power Claude.ai is like counterfeiting 7 million branded products and selling them on your personal website. The original creators don't get credit or payment, and someone’s profiting off their work.
All this happens while authors, many of them teachers, are left scratching their heads with four kids to feed
That may be the case, but you'd have to have laws changed.
>If it outputs parts of the book verbatim then that's a different story.
But it does...
Not really, these have to be meaningful chunks and then yes, this is a separate court case.