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> Effectively if a human can access the content freely without having to actively agree to a license or terms you can scrape the content. You can't republish ve
by hoherd 4y ago
> Effectively if a human can access the content freely without having to actively agree to a license or terms you can scrape the content. You can't republish verbatim, but you can data mine and perform an analysis and publish that.
Would this apply to books? I can walk into a library or book store and OCR countless pages of countless books without agreeing to any license.
- chasing 4y agoTry publishing those OCRed pages and see what happens.
- jfk13 4y agoAs I understand it, "fair use" would allow you to do various kinds of analysis of all those pages, and to quote fragments of them in your own work, which is arguably similar to what copilot etc might do. But republishing large chunks of the content, whether verbatim or in a "derivative" form such as a translation, would generally not be allowed without explicit permission. How much "fair use" allows when it comes to copilot spitting out copies of functions it saw in somebody's repo.... well, that's a line that hasn't been defined yet, afaik.