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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by MostlyStable on Thursday March 13, 2025 @09:12PM (#43358745)
Multiple times in this thread you make the very confident assertion that this is not allowed, and that it is only allowed for electronic media. That is your opinion, which is fine. The argument that it is fair use is also an opinion. Until it becomes settled law with precedent, every argument about it will just opinion on what the text of the law means. But you are denigrating the other opinions while upholding your own as truth.

And whether or not I am personally interested in testing any of these opinions is completely beside the point.

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Re:OpenAI Asks White House for Relief from State AI Rules by triceratops on Friday March 14, 2025 @07:34PM (#43368454)
Copyright is a restriction on making unauthorized, full copies under almost all circumstances. Default deny. There's only one documented exception on the books right now which is electronic media. None of these are opinions.

The idea that photocopying a book for archival purposes is potentially fair use is an untested opinion. I'm not denigrating that opinion. I just think it's likely to fail as an legal argument in the unlikely event that it comes up. I'm not a copyright apologist.

I myself believed the "fair use for archival"/"format shifting" thing applied to all works for most of my life. I only learned there was no law or precedent like 10 days ago.

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