I've been thinking about this case since you brought it up before, and it seems like another landmark moment in a company just breaking the law and paying it off as a tiny sum. From a reductionist perspective, they get $15B and pay a 10% tithe of $1.5B to the system.
If the legal system approves this, they are very loudly saying "some people can pay the tithe and break the law", as we already know for chemical spills, vaccines and other such disasters where the victims are not able to collect from those responsible.
It's worse than that. Their market cap is $183 billion. But honestly, it's a fair price per book, it's just not a fair settlement given that it excludes 97 percent of the authors affected.
This ‘settlement’ is basically Anthropic shoplifting the entire Library of Congress, then tossing the cashier a tip jar coin on the way out. They raised $13B off stolen words and want credit for paying back lunch money. If this is accountability, Enron deserves a participation trophy.
I don't know about that. It sounds like they could have just purchased a copy of the book for far less than $3000 per copy and been good to go from a fair-use standpoint if my reading of previous entries here is correct.
I've been thinking about this case since you brought it up before, and it seems like another landmark moment in a company just breaking the law and paying it off as a tiny sum. From a reductionist perspective, they get $15B and pay a 10% tithe of $1.5B to the system.
If the legal system approves this, they are very loudly saying "some people can pay the tithe and break the law", as we already know for chemical spills, vaccines and other such disasters where the victims are not able to collect from those responsible.
It's worse than that. Their market cap is $183 billion. But honestly, it's a fair price per book, it's just not a fair settlement given that it excludes 97 percent of the authors affected.
Agreed, but I think the plebes will see it as one more "there are no laws" moment.
This ‘settlement’ is basically Anthropic shoplifting the entire Library of Congress, then tossing the cashier a tip jar coin on the way out. They raised $13B off stolen words and want credit for paying back lunch money. If this is accountability, Enron deserves a participation trophy.
I don't know about that. It sounds like they could have just purchased a copy of the book for far less than $3000 per copy and been good to go from a fair-use standpoint if my reading of previous entries here is correct.