Does buying the book give you license to digitise it?

Does owning a digital copy of the book give you license to convert it into another format and copy it into a database?

Definitions of “Ownership” can be very different.

some dude out of Silicon Valley hears about this, and hacks up a system that just uses a $30 webcam, an AI model that detects fingers (trained exclusively on pudgy white fingers of Silicon Valley executives)

Hotdog / not hotdog

• I know nothing

• I don’t believe the information

• I believe but don’t care. <— The US is around here

• I care but I don’t act

• I act but without effect

• I act with effect