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Will be interesting to see where this ends up. If I scrape the NYT content, and then commercialize a service that lets users query that content through an API
by crowcroft 3y ago
Will be interesting to see where this ends up.
If I scrape the NYT content, and then commercialize a service that lets users query that content through an API (occasionally returning verbatim extracts) without any agreement from or payment to the NYT, that would be illegal.
It's not obvious to me why putting an LLM in the middle of the process changes that.
- munchler 3y agoAs long as you pay for your copy of the content and the extracts are fair use, how would that be illegal?
- crowcroft 3y agoIt wouldn’t, but ‘fair use’ is doing a lot of work in that rhetorical. Seems like a court would be a proper place to define what is and isn’t. Tbh I’m mostly curious about whether this settles out of court or whether it goes through the system and sets a precedent.