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Originally Posted by Sirtel
That's hardly a concern for the user; the violator is Google.
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It is copyright violation if you upload to a Sharing Site. Admittedly the public can't directly access your content, they have to query the search engine dressed as a chat bot that doesn't even tell you the source (the LLM).
Dropbox is the same now.
And yes, publishers are going after the companies scraping all this content. Their current T&C make a mockery of their claims of privacy and security. Yes, secured from the public, but they are "ripping off" the content.
Paper books years ago had a clause about machine storage, but Google "won" that dishonestly in the USA courts regarding scanning, and that was wrong and shouldn't apply elsewhere.
These big companies think they are beyond the law.
Ongoing cases variously in USA and EU and UK vs Alphabet/Google, X-Twitter, Meta/Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon (one in USA about recalling illegal and unsafe goods from their marketplace). Criminal, regulatory and civil cases are all ongoing.
New stories every week
https://www.theregister.com/
Likely it's now only truly legal to use DropBox or Google Drive for stuff you own the rights on or PD content.