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Ianal, but copyright law is a bit murky. There are issues of standing, and damage, to come into play here. For example,say I ask GPT to write me a poem, and it
by bruce511 4y ago
Ianal, but copyright law is a bit murky. There are issues of standing, and damage, to come into play here.
For example,say I ask GPT to write me a poem, and it spits out some random poem from the 60s. At this point, no harm, no foul. I'd have to use this poem publicly, for the copyright holder to even know.
Then they'd have to show damages, which assuming it's not already popular would be hard (?)
Of course it's trivial for me, before exploiting the poem, to google-search it. Not hard to find prior art.
Sure, if I'm a professional song writer (or journalist) then maybe, you know, don't get GPT to do my work for me.
In other words sure, using an LLM might lead to a copyright issue. But how would the original rights-holder know, and would there be sufficient damage to warrant any actual damages?
- galaxyLogic 4y ago> Then they'd have to show damages, The situation becomes more real if there is a class-action lawsuit. The damage is then the combined damage of all those whose work was pirated. There could be thousands of copyright holders who are missing out on sales because people can just download their content from whoever. They might not get a publisher because publishers have gone out of the business because OpenAI made them unnecessary :-)