> force AI companies to shred books they want to ingest.

Nothing forces them to shred books, they do it because it's slightly cheaper that way.

hparadiz 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There was a court case where they said that if they copied the books it's not fair use because they didn't own it but if they bought physical copies and then destroyed them then somehow it was fair use because it fell into the niche of personal backups. I forget the details but basically they buy one time prints and destroy them immediately.

	▲	customguy 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had no idea about that, or how fucking bad this actually is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Panama So I stand corrected: at least some don't do it because it's cheaper (than to buy a license, or simply forego some things), but because they're fucking evil, or so stupid that it effectively is the same as being extremely evil.

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skeledrew 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They do it because, for each work, they bought one copy, which they scan and no longer need the physical version of, and would be in copyright violation if they keep more copies than they bought.

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annapanna 15 hours ago | parent [-]

>and would be in copyright violation if they keep more copies than they bought.

They can contact the copyright holder and ask/buy a license to make multiple copies.

	▲	hparadiz 15 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		yes and they can ask for a pony and then a unicorn too
	▲	skeledrew 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		For what?

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postepowanieadm 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

By destroying them they don't copy only convert them into another format.