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Re:Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI by dragonwriter on Monday May 05, 2025 @06:53PM (#43900204)
> The RIAA lawyers never had to demonstrate that copying a DVD cratered the sales of their clients.

Did any of the defendants raise a fair use defense based on a transformative use that they were making of the downloaded copies? If not, you are in the domain of "unlike legal situations lead to unlike decisions" which is not exactly surprising.

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Re:Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI by ndsipa_pomu on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @07:14AM (#43903795)
IIRC format shifting was argued to be part of fair use. I would think that taking an audio CD and ripping it into MP3 would be transformative, but I don't think the law would agree.
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