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NEW YORK (AP) — John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission.

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[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Bibliotik, the site Books3 is from, regularly updates and has torrents to software specifically for removing the copy protection from ebooks.

I wonder if part of the lawsuit is about the fact that most of the books on Bibliotik had their copy protection removed before being uploaded.

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