[News] The Book Guillotine: How Copyright Law Made Destroying Books the Cheapest Way to Build an AI
Court filings show AI companies buying millions of print books, slicing off the bindings, scanning the pages and discarding the paper, and the reason the books are destroyed rather than kept is a 300-year-old rule about who owns a copy.
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