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AI memorizing parts of a book may not be copyright infringement. But WHEN it outputs passages from the book verbatim that clearly is, right? It's like if I mem
by galaxyLogic 4y ago
AI memorizing parts of a book may not be copyright infringement. But WHEN it outputs passages from the book verbatim that clearly is, right?
It's like if I memorize a song in my head that's fine. That is not copyright infringement even though in some sense I have copied that song into my brain.
But if I then write out and publish or sing the song in public, that is, copyright infringement, clearly. If I do it systematically to many songs and make money out of that, even more so.
- ksaj 4y agoThree questions that expose my opinion on the matter: If it can only output an amount of text that would be considered an acceptable quote in an essay, is it still infringing on copyright? If you quote your favourite line in a song, have you broken copyright? If you write a song that ends with a silent pause followed by the word "tonight" have you broken copyright, even if that pause was the result of probabilities in the song style and word choice? There are a bizarre number of songs that end with a pause before the word "tonight." A lot of them. Should any one of those writers call foul on your song that also does it?
- galaxyLogic 4y agoThere is the doctrine of "fair use" which basically says small amounts of copying are ok when you use them to explain something about the work in question. What is fair use is up to the courts. In a song if you copy part of the melody that really is the main thing and that really helps you sell your song, I don't think that's fair. Songs can not "explain" other melodies. So musical composition is a little different from text.