[spudlyo]

Speaking broadly, the publishers who hold the copyrights on these materials have often behaved poorly. From overbroad DMCA takedown demands that chill fair use, to threatening libraries, students, and scholars with lawsuits and stiff penalties for minor infringements, to "copyright trolling" campaigns sending mass settlement demands to alleged infringers -- I have little sympathy for copyright holders.

I'm still angry about how publishers and the Authors Guild sued Google over Google Books. Intellectual property is why we as a society can't have nice things. While I'm not a fan of Meta, their open weight models are probably one of the best things they've ever done, and I'll back big tech over publishers every time.