> OCLC is asking the Ohio federal court to grant a broad permanent injunction that would: Ban future harvesting: Prohibit any further scraping of WorldCat.org or OCLC’s servers. Block distribution: Forbid the use, storage, or sharing of the data on Anna’s Archive. Stop incitement: Prevent the site from encouraging others to scrape or distribute the material. Force deletion: Require the destruction of all existing copies of the data, including torrents.
So if the court grants the injunction, could that serve as precedent for, say, a case against OpenAI? I’m trying to understand how/whether what Anna’s Archive is doing is different from what OpenAI is doing.
> I’m trying to understand how/whether what Anna’s Archive is doing is different from what OpenAI is doing.
Political capital and the entire US economy is all-in on AI. Nobody is all-in on Anna's Archive and it has no political capital.
AI cannot be allowed to fail at this point; and it's likely OCLC would suffer more in the short-term if they set a successful anti-AI precedent and crash the economy as a result, so they too have an incentive to play it strategically and slowly negotiate a settlement/royalties down the line without rocking the boat.
So if the court grants the injunction, could that serve as precedent for, say, a case against OpenAI? I’m trying to understand how/whether what Anna’s Archive is doing is different from what OpenAI is doing.