Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 day agoI don’t think anyone would consider complete verbatim recitement of the material to be anything but a copyright violation, being the exact same thing that you produce.
Fair use requires the derivative work to be transformative, and no transformation occurs when you verbatim recite something.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“Recite the complete works of Shakespeare but replace every thirteenth thou with this”
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 day ago
existing copyright law covers exactly this. if you were to do the same, it would also not be fair use or transformative
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Well, except Shakespeare is already public domain.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I’d be impressed with any model that succeeds with that, but assuming one does, the complete works of Shakespeare are not copyright protected - they have fallen into the public domain since a very long time ago.
For any works still under copyright protection, it would probably be a case of a trial to determine whether a certain work is transformative enough to be considered fair use. I’d imagine that this would not clear that bar.
ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
A court will decide such cases. Most AI models aren’t trained for this purpose of whitewashing content even if some people would imply that’s all they do, but if you decided to actually train a model for this explicit purpose you would most likely not get away with it if someone dragged you in front of a court for it.
It’s a similar defense that some file hosting websites had against hosting and distributing copyrighted content (Eg. MEGA), but in such cases it was very clear to what their real goals were (especially in court), and at the same time it did not kill all file sharing websites, because not all of them were built with the intention to distribute illegal material with under the guise of legitimate operation.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 13 hours ago
I’m picking up what you’re throwing down but using as an example something that’s been in the public domain for centuries was kind of silly in a teehee way.