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
Comment on German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 months agoWhat if you read a copyrighted engineering textbook, and then build something for profit with that knowledge?
RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 4 months ago
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
But the court rulings / precedence wouldn’t care about that distinction, it just covers learning from copyrighted material in general.
RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 4 months 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
frongt@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
That’s the point of a textbook.