> The discovery that someone is making significant money (I presume Meta and the other mega-corporations paid well for the product of Presser’s “intellectual curiosity”) from essentially copying and pasting our work is a nasty gut-punch.
As far as I know, no one has made money from books3. Meta certainly didn't pay for it.
Gonna be hilarious when the big publishing companies behind this "we must PROTECT AUTHORS!!!!!one!!!!" moral panic end up expanding written copyright so wide that putting four words together in a sentence can cost licensing fees (paid to them, naturally).
Think it's impossible? Look at what the equivalent cartel has already accomplished in the music business.
As far as I know, no one has made money from books3. Meta certainly didn't pay for it.