Judge orders Anna's Archive to delete scraped data from WorldCat

(arstechnica.com)

20 points | by -0 a day ago ago

7 comments

  • motbus3 a day ago

    Weird enough, they never asked Anthropic or Meta to do the same and restart the model training from scratch

    • gruez 21 hours ago

      Because Anthropic and Meta had lawyers, and Anna's Archive didn't even show up, so worldcat go whatever it demanded.

  • Kim_Bruning 12 hours ago

    It's modern Samizdat[1] , isn't it?

    I think it's a bit amazing and a bit embarrassing that western culture is being kept out of a kind of dark ages[2] by ex soviets, of all people.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat

    [2] In the very practical sense that certain texts end up lost because they're copyrighted but no one re-publishes them on time, so few or no copies remain in practice.

  • LarsKrimi 15 hours ago

    > Judge Michael Watson in US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

    A US judge.. Oh no. Prepare for tarriffs and invasion Anna!

    It sounds like it's just metadata they scraped anyway?

  • Sabinus 13 hours ago

    Remember to donate if you use and appreciate the archive. They're running reasonable risks to defy US copyright.

  • squigz a day ago
  • littlestymaar a day ago

    I'm glad Anna's Archive, like sci-hub before, is hosted in the free world (A.K.A. the former Eastern block) so it can escape copyreich oppression and allow us all to access human knowledge and culture.