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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I don't see any legal relevance in the difference between influence/knowledge being gained by words being scraped by machine "eyes" and influence/knowledge being gained by words being scraped by human eyes.
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Unfortunately, there is a huge legal difference if the machine-readable form (e-book) was never released without DRM. The only way a machine learning system could be trained on such works is by defeating the DRM, and that's a copyright violation all by itself.
Humans don't have to defeat the DRM to "scrape" the data in an e-book, because there are authorized devices and software that the human can use to get the data into their eyes.