Comment by marssaxman
1 year ago
I meant it exactly as I said it. I do not agree that any theft occurred, either in law or in spirit, and I believe that reinterpretation of intellectual-property law in order to make it a crime would cause significant harm, greatly outweighing the benefits, as has been the case with every other expansion of intellectual property law I have seen.
Anthropic downloaded books from Library Genesis and The Pirate Library mirror. This is factual and reported on from court documents.
What’s the angle that describes this as fair use?
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The simple fact that they are not republishing any of that data. Fair use does not apply, because copyright does not apply, because nothing is being copied.
So you don't think downloading something from The Pirate Bay constitutes copyright infringement provided you don't republish it?
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