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Ironically, weights and biases are likely not copyrightable.[0] I looked into this first when the LLaMA model was released on BitTorrent, and concluded that dow
by baryphonic 3y ago
Ironically, weights and biases are likely not copyrightable.[0] I looked into this first when the LLaMA model was released on BitTorrent, and concluded that downloading it was perfectly legal. The courts even have controlling precedents that say "sweat of the brow" is not a valid justification for copyright, meaning that the effort these large organizations put into training their models does not grant them protection.[1]
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35121093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35121093
[1]https://definitions.uslegal.com/s/sweat-of-the-brow-doctrine/ https://definitions.uslegal.com/s/sweat-of-the-brow-doctrine...
- fl7305 3y ago> Ironically, weights and biases are likely not copyrightable. > The courts even have controlling precedents that say "sweat of the brow" is not a valid justification for copyright You might be right for the US, but the EU seems to have different laws: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/running-business/intellectual-property/database-protection/index_en.htm https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/running-business/intel...
- baryphonic 3y agoThat's fair enough, but Meta, Google, OpenAI, etc. are all American companies, thus US law would likely apply.
- lostmsu 3y agoIANAL, but I would not immediately agree with the first link, because I believe their reasoning applies to any video encoded with loss.