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This AI ruling is also actually completely in-line with existing precedent from the photography world.

The US Copyright Office has previously ruled that a photograph taken by a non-human (in this case, a monkey) is not copyrightable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute

Look at the Netherlands and how it's often done there, you walk around with a scanner so you can scan as you go and quickly pay at the end.

Walmart and Sam's Club have this with their Scan & Go app in the US. Scan the barcode with your phone, add it to your cart, pay from your phone, and someone at the door will scan a QR from your phone then scan a few random items in the cart and you're done.

I pretty much wouldn't shop at Sam's if it didn't exist. The checkout lines there have always been long and a pain. It cuts a ton of time standing around waiting in line out of a trip.

I haven't watched the show yet, but I read the books years ago and they're very worthwhile IMO. Quality of writing and narrative is pretty consistent throughout the series from what I remember. If you read the first entry/novella and enjoy it, then the full series should hold your interest.

I would assume it's companies that are running computer kiosks, point-of-sale systems, or systems that would otherwise be extremely locked-down (like bank teller systems).

As an example, we're currently evaluating it as an option for doctors to access certain EMRs offsite where it doesn't make sense to provide them an entire workstation, e.g., community doctors working from their private practices.

Restricts Freedom to Use the Software

I've always found this particular one somewhat frustrating. It's essentially the tolerance paradox repackaged into a software licensing analog:

"You are restricting the freedom of users by taking away their ability to close the code and restrict the freedom of other users!"

It's always read very "I got mine" to me.

That said, while I lean copyleft, I also don't find just barring commercial use entirely interesting. The goal is to ensure source code remains available to users; I think there are better ways of addressing that than trying to delineate and exclude commercial use.