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Clean room reverse engineering is a thing because software copyright was a mistake and the judicial system understands it was a mistake. In software, it is regu
by kmeisthax 4y ago
Clean room reverse engineering is a thing because software copyright was a mistake and the judicial system understands it was a mistake. In software, it is regular and common for programmers to use licensed software libraries with defined interfaces. In writing or art, the notion of a "compatible interface" isn't really there. If you wrote a short fan story with Marvel characters and you want to liberate it from Disney's ownership, you have to redesign all the characters; you can't just argue that you need a superhero with red nanotech armor and a drinking problem in exactly this particular shape for compatibility.
- politician 4y agoI'll agree to your premise, but I'm relying on the combination of the recent guidance from the Copyright Office on AI generated output (ie: the output cannot receive copyright) with Clean Room techniques, optionally followed by a human transformation. I agree that if the output is a character named Iron Man, then no dice; if, however, the output is a new song that sounds similar to the original song but isn't the same, then I suspect that this will clear the bar for copyright.