I agree that MAI v Peek is crazy. I was only pointing out that the law is of the opinion that a copy is a copy is a copy, regardless of where it's made, or how

I agree that MAI v Peek is crazy. I was only pointing out that the law is of the opinion that a copy is a copy is a copy, regardless of where it's made, or how long it exists for. Other decisions come into play to save us, like Authors Guild v Google, where they said search engines could make copies, bringing Fair Use into the picture. Personally, I think that creating the model is Fair Use, but anything produced by the model would need to be checked for a violation. I would treat it the same as if I went to Google Book Search, and copied the snippet it returned into my new book. The license associated with the training data then becomes insanely important. Having the model reference back to the source data is even more important. For example, training data with a CC BY license would be very different to CC BY-SA and CC BY-ND, and they all require the work produced by the model to have credit back to the original source to be publishable. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/