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"We would have to buy / own rights to the photographs before we could use them to train..." Is this actually true?
by hooloovoo_zoo 8y ago
"We would have to buy / own rights to the photographs before we could use them to train..."
Is this actually true?
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoIn USA I don't think it is because the end use is transformative [1]. In UK it would be tortuous because it relies on Fair Use to temporarily store the images in order to extract the facial structure data. Fair Dealing is really draconian in comparison. [1] https://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairuse https://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairuse
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- djrogers 8y agoReally doesn’t matter - the legal team at the NYT thinks it might be, and lawyers exist to tell people “you’d better not”.
- acct1771 8y agoAnd it's our job, as someone who knows what a computer is, to move forward with common sense if they're overreaching which, is their job. They have every incentive to be as conservative in their advice as possible, and no incentives to "allow" risks. Doesn't increase their compensation any.