Isn't datum the singular for data?
indeed it is, kind sir. if only we could educate these philistines on how to use the english language we'd be in business. see now that comment was smug. the initial one had more of a jokey, anal-retentive vibe.
There is no more clear case of fair use than this: buying physical books. Once a person or business buys a book, they don't get to continue to control what happens to that book.
But...what about AI regurgitating all that copyrighted data? Yes, it does regurgitate the data, but only in ways that are compatible with fair use. AI will never reproduce the entire work, or even large sections of it. At most, a paragraph or two. And this is exactly what humans do under fair use. We are allowed to quote small sections of the text, as long as we don't reproduce the work in bulk.
Personally, I think e-books ought to follow the same principle as physical books. You buy it, you can do what you want with it, as long as you don't republish it, and use it only for your own purposes. It should be *yours*.
yeah you guys are right. good call
Theory is gray, but the golden tree of life is green. -- Goethe
