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		JumpCrisscross on Sept 5, 2024 \| 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 on Sept 5, 2024 [–]

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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