Would it not be a viable solution to let Google scan and sell books, but force them to give the profit from the sales to the government?

I never seen an explicit mention if the Google Books corpus was indeed or not used for training LLMs…

Anyone knows more about it?

> “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

Greeted with a paywall on the source. Hypocracy...

> what happened with piano rolls, with records, with radio, and with cable—isn’t that copyright holders squash the new technology. Instead, they cut a deal and start making money from it.

> “History has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests,” Wu writes.

It is completely braindead to argue that market forces had anything to do with compulsory licensing. It is a matter determined by courts in the public interest.

Sad and criminal.

Ironically behind a paywall (and below a political ad)

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TL;DR: bye bye Google

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Thanks Paul!