To be honest, I dont really blame Anthropic for this.
The prior ruling against The Internet Archive that made it so they couldnt archive digital copies of books effectively has made it so companies like Anthropic must do it this way.
So I blame the shitty courts for the very stupid ruling.
So they bought one copy of millions of different books and cut them off in the process of scanning them?
I mean... ok?
It would have been nicer to not cut them off and donate them after, but I wonder if in US copyright that would have made them less likely to get a pass. Here's hoping they recycled the paper, at least.