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> act of Congress More than that, a constitutional amendment. See Feist vs. Rural Telephone. The US does not have database copyright or "sweat of the brow" co
by Animats 2y ago
> act of Congress
More than that, a constitutional amendment. See Feist vs. Rural Telephone.
The US does not have database copyright or "sweat of the brow" copyright. There has to be human originality.
- AstralStorm 2y agoSo if you collect things in an undisclosed database without archival rights you probably are violating bajillion copyright claims, right? The AI itself can be construed as a special kind of a database, given that it can be queried to reproduce at least part of its training dataset with precision...
- cxr 2y ago> So if you collect things in an undisclosed database without archival rights you probably are violating bajillion copyright claims, right? No.
- xp84 2y agoDoesn’t it usually have to be queried with a bunch of the training material anyway? It’s a pretty foolish sounding argument that one is being harmed if it boils down to “when I type in the first half of my article into GPT it can sometimes complete a few more paragraphs of it” (That’s what the NYT tried to argue/show. I’m not sure if that case is ongoing or settled.)