Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What if you read a copyrighted engineering textbook, and then build something for profit with that knowledge?

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  • RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    GEMA stands for “Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte” which means “Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights” in English. So if it’s not music they won’t care

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But the court rulings / precedence wouldn’t care about that distinction, it just covers learning from copyrighted material in general.

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      • RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No idea about that, not a lawyer. However I think a big part is that ChatGPT would just spit out full lyrics. If you were to recreate the instructions from memory and post them online, you’d probably be in trouble too

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s the point of a textbook.

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