Comment by Ajedi32

That's very interesting, because it totally makes sense legally, but the practical effect is ludicrously stupid. The law is effectively forcing companies to spend millions re-scanning the same books over and over for no reason. It'd be like if we had a law which stated "Before you can train an AI, you must light 1 million dollars on fire. After that you can do whatever you want.". It serves no purpose but to waste societal resources on nothing.