They should be forced to publicly release the books as an Ebook.

Leave it up for anyone to download and then compensate the copyright holders later.

In fact if ingesting these books for LLMs is fair use, us commoners should be able to read them for free. Maybe restrict commercial redistribution though.

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streetfighter64 2 hours ago | parent [-]

There's a bunch of details regarding LLMs and copyright, but I don't see how

> They should be forced to publicly release the books as an Ebook.

would be reasonable in any way? The books aren't theirs to release publicly. If I brought a copy of any given movie on DVD, ripped it and used it to train my own "LLM" located at /dev/null, should I then be allowed (or even forced) to release the movie publicly for anyone to watch for free?

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999900000999 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

We’re in a brave new world now. If theirs reason to believe your destroying the last copy of a book( or another copy isn’t easy to obtain) then you should make a copy of it available.

Set up a compensation fund for the rights holders. Anything is better than culture literally being sucked into the void.

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cj an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The alternative (throwing books away for no good reason) isn't much more reasonable.

	▲	pfdietz 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It happens on a massive scale, so it's completely reasonable. Books are disposable information delivery vehicles now. Publishers pulp great quantities of unsold books too.