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Sure, but there are things you can do without a license because they're not copyright violations. You can read the work, learn from it, and sometimes make quota
by skybrian 4y ago
Sure, but there are things you can do without a license because they're not copyright violations. You can read the work, learn from it, and sometimes make quotations under fair use.
This is a novel scenario. It seems unclear how the courts will interpret it? Never mind what we think, will they decide it's a derivative work, or is it a transformative use?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use
- teddyh 4y ago“Fair use” is, technically, not actually permitted by copyright law. ISTR that “fair use” is only a defense you can use when you are being sued for copyright violation. Suppose we create a new AI image generator, and use as training input every image ever made of a Disney character (official images by Disney, that is, no fan art), including every frame of every Disney movie. Could we just use the output images of that AI however we wanted to? (Not withstanding trademarks.)
- skybrian 4y agoLooks like there is case law that fictional characters are protected if they are "sufficiently delineated." I don't see how that applies to code, though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_fictional_characters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_fic...
- teddyh 4y agoI guess we’ll find out.