Kevin Bankston says Anthropic’s book destruction follows the logic of recent copyright rulings
AndyMasley · x · 2026-07-29
Kevin Bankston argues that the outrage over Anthropic destroying books is misplaced, because the company is doing it to avoid infringement under the logic established by recent court cases.
His point is that the same legal arguments now driving the criticism are part of what produced this outcome in the first place.
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