Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

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New documents and earlier filings from copyright cases against AI companies reveal how tech firms sought vast data troves to "train" their software.

The rise of tablet computers, such as Apple's iPad, and e-book readers, such as Amazon's Kindle, has resulted in a rise in popularity for electronic versions of books. If you want to use one with a ...

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Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

Responding to concerns from several academic and commercial publishers, Google has made minor adjustments in its vast project to scan library books, and Google officials say they will not scan any ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich -- In a dimly lit back room on the second level of the University of Michigan library's book-shelving department, Courtney Mitchel helped a giant desktop machine digest a rare, ...