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beering 25 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan r...

This is not true. Google Books does not destroy books. No court has ruled that you must destroy books to legally keep a digital copy.

tingletech 25 days ago [–]

I think under first sale doctrine you have a much stronger case with destructive scanning. Google Books, HathiTrust, and Internet Archive's book scanning project have had a lot of legal expenses.

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