{"slug": "why-are-ai-companies-buying-books", "title": "Why are AI companies buying books?", "summary": "AI companies are purchasing used books to train large language models, following a court ruling earlier this year that buying and destroying physical books for AI training constitutes fair use under copyright law.", "body_md": "AI companies are buying used books to help train their large language models. As part of a copyright settlement earlier this year, courts ruled that buying physical books and destroying them for AI training is technically fair use.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-are-ai-companies-buying-books", "canonical_source": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91602158/why-are-ai-companies-buying-books", "published_at": "2026-09-03 22:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-03 22:22:15.013443+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-policy"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-are-ai-companies-buying-books", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-are-ai-companies-buying-books.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-are-ai-companies-buying-books.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-are-ai-companies-buying-books.jsonld"}}