A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries: Recent legal decision has reaffirmed the power of fair use in the digital age, and it’s a big win for libraries and the future of public access to knowledge
A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries: Recent legal decision has reaffirmed the power of fair use in the digital age, and it’s a big win for libraries and the future of public access to knowledge
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This decision reinforces the idea that copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes—like making a book searchable, training an AI, or preserving web pages—can be lawful under fair use. That legal protection is essential to modern librarianship.
I'm happy that this works out in libraries' favor, but I can't see how Anthropic managed to slip through "copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes". Are they a non-profit and I just didn't know?
When copying is legal for profit, it's safe to assume that it's also legal without profit.