Needing to destroy books when uploading them to a computer so that they are legally the same entity is an interesting precedent for human brain uploads.
Books are immutable. Different digital copies of of book Dune are all “the same” book the way different digital copies of the int3273 are all “the same” number.
Uploaded people would not be immutable. People would not think of different copies of MMAcevedo as the same instance. People would think of uploading as a copy, not move, operation.
I’ve seen people mention a requirement to keep destroying a physical book after digitizing it but I’m not sure what they’re referring to. Do you have a source/reference?
Specifically I think the fact that they destroyed the books was a factor in their fair use, see header “The Purchased Library Copies Converted from Print to Digital.”
it isn’t a requirement for fair use, but the judge saw it as evidence that Anthropic intended merely to transform its copy from the cumbersome physical format to the more convenient, digital format: 1 + 1 − 1 = 1
Needing to destroy books when uploading them to a computer so that they are legally the same entity is an interesting precedent for human brain uploads.
Books are immutable. Different digital copies of of book Dune are all “the same” book the way different digital copies of the
int3273 are all “the same” number.Uploaded people would not be immutable. People would not think of different copies of MMAcevedo as the same instance. People would think of uploading as a copy, not move, operation.
No spoilers but Mickey 17 is a good movie!
I’ve seen people mention a requirement to keep destroying a physical book after digitizing it but I’m not sure what they’re referring to. Do you have a source/reference?
See the legal ruling about Anthropic here: https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/3:2024cv05417/434709/231
Specifically I think the fact that they destroyed the books was a factor in their fair use, see header “The Purchased Library Copies Converted from Print to Digital.”
it isn’t a requirement for fair use, but the judge saw it as evidence that Anthropic intended merely to transform its copy from the cumbersome physical format to the more convenient, digital format: 1 + 1 − 1 = 1