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Their position is this is fair use--that means your license isn't the thing that's allowing them to use it, and thus changing your license won't cause them to s
by electroly 4y ago
Their position is this is fair use--that means your license isn't the thing that's allowing them to use it, and thus changing your license won't cause them to stop being allowed to use it. Fair use is the limited ability to use copyrighted works regardless of the creator's license or wishes. It's a powerful right; it's the right to use copyrighted works even when the creator wants to ban you from using it.
Whether they are right that this is fair use is above my pay grade, but if they're right, then GPL won't help at all. You can't stop fair use of your copyrighted works; that's not a technicality, it's the whole point of fair use doctrine. The best you can do is try to show that a particular usage isn't covered by fair use.
- azemetre 4y agoI suppose but how is it fair use if they are literally giving you the answer verbatim from the source? I don't mind paraphrasing, where I get upset is someone copying the material and making money off of it; even more so when this is a trillion dollar corporation that can more than easily pay for attribution. From other comments, it seems like this is far from legally settled.
- electroly 4y agoIt may not be fair use at all; I'm not qualified to judge on that point. It's simply the position they are taking in releasing these models. We won't know for sure if they're right until a court rules on it.