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"compensating the authors for using their works would be the fair move" Fundamentally their asking to renegotiate the sale price of their work depending on wha
by earleybird 3y ago
"compensating the authors for using their works would be the fair move"
Fundamentally their asking to renegotiate the sale price of their work depending on what the purchaser decides to do with the book.
I'm looking forward to the time when I must declare if I'm purchasing a book for:
- personal enjoyment
- to produce a parody
- burn it
- webmaven 3y agoNote that one of the claims regarding the books in these corpora is that they were not purchased in the first place, but were pirated, so the First Sale doctrine (or Fair Dealing, depending on your jurisdiction) doesn't really apply. You could devise a scenario whereby an artist deliberately used pirated works in order to make a satirical[0] point about copyright itself (or the global publisher oligopoly, etc.) that might be accepted by a judge as a fair use argument, but that is not what's happening here. [0] Parody is when you change a work to make fun of it (eg. a twilight parody where Edward and Bella's dialog is in Valspeak). Satire is when you change a work to make fun of something *else* (eg. a version of Twilight where Edward and Bella are replaced with Putin and Trump). The general reason Satire isn't as protected by Fair Use as Parody is because you can usually replace the (ab)used work with something else while still making a similar point about the actual subject of your critique (eg. make a Putin/Trump version of Pride and Prejudice instead of using Twilight).
- Guvante 3y agoAI is fundamentally about redistributing the content it trains on.