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‘Biggest act of copyright theft in history’: Australian books used for AI model
- ggm 3y agoIt was a viable fair use defence right up to people decided there was $ value in LLM. Once there's value, then the IPR laws come to bear. It's beyond academic use, and into productisation. It's an unlicensed downstream use, exceeding any prior agreement.
- bloak 3y agoI think (not sure though) that the Berne Convention requires Australian law to treat foreign books in the same way as Australian books so the reference to "Australian books" is a rhetorical flourish, not legally relevant.
- 2Gkashmiri 3y agoand yet "publishers" are out for archive's blood for doing a temporary lending program during the worst time in recent human history collectively? yeah, fuck them