Good-by to Gutenberg? Nope—Shrill Publisher Cries about Xerox Machine Were Wrong
1975 Xerox machine lawsuit: publishers vs libraries amicus briefs AI summary and then AI blog post it.
The exhibits
Exhibit A — the photocopier is a printing press
Exhibit B — the journals will simply die
Exhibit C — one copy replaces all copies
Exhibit D — a censorship apocalypse
Exhibit E — the slippery slope to the end of publishing
Exhibit F — death of the marketplace of ideas
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