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@ingrid
Controversial opinion: they're both wrong

@faduda

Ah come on now Gerard, you can't go explaining to people that libraries actually pay writers a little bit of money when people borrow their books and the IA were just giving away the stuff.

Then instead of passing around a writer's books they'd have to campaign for UBI so writers wouldn't need to be paid through sales or something which would involve actual work rather than self-justification.

Much easier to "destroy (C)" to the benefit of Disney and OpenAI. Less effort.

@ingrid

@Homebrewandhacking @faduda @ingrid

Except libraries don't pay authors on a per-loan basis. The authors get royalties from the initial book sale, but that's it.

https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2016/08/getting-paid-how-do-authors-make-money-from-library-books/

@faduda @thekilt @ingrid

I think he's just thinking of e-books. (I assume he from the confidence and error.) That is a bit of a rip off.