[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.
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.
Weird enough, they never asked Anthropic or Meta to do the same and restart the model training from scratch
Because Anthropic and Meta had lawyers, and Anna's Archive didn't even show up, so worldcat go whatever it demanded.
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.
> 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?
Remember to donate if you use and appreciate the archive. They're running reasonable risks to defy US copyright.
https://annas-archive.li/datasets/oclc
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.