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Notes and reading tagged intellectual property

• AUGUST 21

  Amazon Is Destroying Books to Train AI. We Should Have Built the Library Instead.

  404 Media tracked rare books to Amazon’s VGT3 facility in Las Vegas, where workers cut bindings, scan pages for AI training, and destroy the originals— a legally safer path that still feels like a failure of the library.

  Inspired by 404media.co · 404 Media

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• AUGUST 21

  Aaron Swartz Was Prosecuted. Meta Torrented Shadow Libraries at Industrial Scale

  Curious Quail’s comparison of Aaron Swartz’s JSTOR prosecution with Meta torrenting LibGen and Anna’s Archive for Llama—the cases are not legally identical; the proportionality is hard to ignore.

  Inspired by blog.curiousquail.com · Curious Quail

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• JULY 25

  Google Used to Be the Company Everyone Wanted Sending Them Traffic

  Google’s AI results reduce publisher clicks while still needing crawled original work—arguing the old search partnership is flipping into a trap that may consume the open web Google depends on.

  Inspired by futurism.com · Victor Tangermann

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• JULY 18

  Crediting the AI

  Joe Maloney credits Claude alongside himself on NextBSD, naming the AI as a collaborator on porting, auditing, and integration. Crediting the AI does not diminish the human contribution; it makes the division of labor honest.

  Inspired by theregister.com · Liam Proven

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• JULY 17

  Walking a Fine Line

  Apple’s legal letters to former employees at OpenAI sit beside an ongoing product partnership. Companies sometimes have to defend their interests and preserve a business relationship at the same time.

  Inspired by apple.slashdot.org · Slashdot

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