Judge orders Anna's Archive to delete scraped data from WorldCat

motbus3 · 2026-01-17T10:24:43 1768645483

Weird enough, they never asked Anthropic or Meta to do the same and restart the model training from scratch

gruez · 2026-01-17T12:52:55 1768654375

Because Anthropic and Meta had lawyers, and Anna's Archive didn't even show up, so worldcat go whatever it demanded.

squigz · 2026-01-17T09:38:46 1768642726

Kim_Bruning · 2026-01-17T21:55:47 1768686947

It's modern Samizdat[1] , isn't it?

I think it's a bit amazing and a bit embarrassing that western culture is being kept out of a kind of dark ages[2] by ex soviets, of all people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat

[2] In the very practical sense that certain texts end up lost because they're copyrighted but no one re-publishes them on time, so few or no copies remain in practice.

LarsKrimi · 2026-01-17T18:25:52 1768674352

> Judge Michael Watson in US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

A US judge.. Oh no. Prepare for tarriffs and invasion Anna!

It sounds like it's just metadata they scraped anyway?

Sabinus · 2026-01-17T20:29:15 1768681755

Remember to donate if you use and appreciate the archive. They're running reasonable risks to defy US copyright.

littlestymaar · 2026-01-17T10:42:15 1768646535

I'm glad Anna's Archive, like sci-hub before, is hosted in the free world (A.K.A. the former Eastern block) so it can escape copyreich oppression and allow us all to access human knowledge and culture.