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JumpCrisscross 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachet...

There was a SCOTUS case remarkably like this, except for radio, and the answer is no, but the truth is it was complicated.

pxc 10 months ago [–]

So what if the book is never scanned, but there's a video stream of a camera pointed at the book, and a robot turns its pages? If we make a video streaming jukebox for books, is it 'distributing copies'?

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