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6/24/2025, 11:30:17 PM
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A book becomes public domain when it is online in PDF form. Nobody who downloads a PDF violates the law. Potentially the host of the PDF could face liability, but probably not. Especially if they dont profit off it, as you cant be sued for hand typing up an entire chapter of a book. See pic related.
In the first scenario you might have paid a dollar, or they might have been donated in a "free" bin. It doesnt matter, because turning A into B isnt illegal. Turning said books into mulch isnt illegal, and there have been court cases over a related concept called first sale. In about 2009 Wiley and Sons or some shit went after this gook who was buying books in Malaysia and selling them for 15x the price in the US, university textbooks since shitskin countries get them for 200$ when the US pays 3k, and in India theyre 8 dollars. Paper is a little thinner, but its the same information. Sometimes they change the wording, or the practice questions in shitskin countries so youd fail in the US if you had their book, to discourage that.
Anyways once a book is bought yes you own it. So that actually backs you up, can you reprint and sell the book no. But can you take the book and mulch it, then sell the mulch as something it wasnt originally yes. Can you take a copywrited image and change it, and sell it yes. Can you take a copywrited book, then take parts of it, but not the entire thing, and re-incorporate them into a much more complex and distorted form of information or speech of course, and profit yes. Clearly as the judge ruled. Especially if the AI found it online, on a readily available free pdf. Sue the website host. Too late.
A book becomes public domain when it is online in PDF form. Nobody who downloads a PDF violates the law. Potentially the host of the PDF could face liability, but probably not. Especially if they dont profit off it, as you cant be sued for hand typing up an entire chapter of a book. See pic related.
In the first scenario you might have paid a dollar, or they might have been donated in a "free" bin. It doesnt matter, because turning A into B isnt illegal. Turning said books into mulch isnt illegal, and there have been court cases over a related concept called first sale. In about 2009 Wiley and Sons or some shit went after this gook who was buying books in Malaysia and selling them for 15x the price in the US, university textbooks since shitskin countries get them for 200$ when the US pays 3k, and in India theyre 8 dollars. Paper is a little thinner, but its the same information. Sometimes they change the wording, or the practice questions in shitskin countries so youd fail in the US if you had their book, to discourage that.
Anyways once a book is bought yes you own it. So that actually backs you up, can you reprint and sell the book no. But can you take the book and mulch it, then sell the mulch as something it wasnt originally yes. Can you take a copywrited image and change it, and sell it yes. Can you take a copywrited book, then take parts of it, but not the entire thing, and re-incorporate them into a much more complex and distorted form of information or speech of course, and profit yes. Clearly as the judge ruled. Especially if the AI found it online, on a readily available free pdf. Sue the website host. Too late.
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