blog/_posts/2026-07-30-comic-2-copyright-law-for-thee-but-not-for-me.md

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title: "Comic 2: Anthropic book burnings"
date: 2026-07-30T17:00:00.000+01:00
permalink: comic-2
description: TLDR - destroying books and stealing peoples shit is fine as long
  as you have bad intentions
image: /assets/uploads/comic2.png
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### TREMENDOUSLY LENGTHY HIATUS

sorry to my beloved reader for my absence, i was working full time for a year and all of my creative energy was being leeched away from me into work projects. hopefully more time to work on shit. dont trust me though same shit may happen lulz

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this is issue 2 of my mouse and keyboard gimp comic slop, showing my feelings on the 2025 finding that anthropic buying up rare books and shredding their spines for more reliable scans for their training data is lawful. i don't like the common consensus either being "but at least the publisher/author gets their cut" or "yeah but they're mass market paperbacks". 

all so some ai model that gets deprecated by Q4 can shit out soulless unemotional tripe that some cunt tries to sell on amazon. 

Copyright is supposed to protect creatives!

![COMIC: PANEL 1 - Aaron Swartz at MIT computer saying "these papers should be public, they're paywalled, publicly funded and uncopyrighted, I'll scrape them so the public can benefit too". PANEL 2: Aaron in court, US Vs Swartz. PANEL 3: Aaron's suicide, apathetic copyright warrior says "thank god we  protected  publisher interests!". PANEL 4: anthropic HQ, some guy says "how can we increase our already ludicrous  profit margins?". money printer in background is being fed directly to shredder. PANEL 5: Anthropic CEO on stage saying "don't worry, our lawyers say book burnings are cool again and this is fine because publishers get their cut.... do you want China to win the AI race?"](/assets/uploads/comic2.png "copyright law for thee, but not for me")