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My complaint with your argument is that the word learn means one thing when we are talking about a person learning something from a webpage or book and somethin
by wang_li 5mo ago
My complaint with your argument is that the word learn means one thing when we are talking about a person learning something from a webpage or book and something completely different when a webpage or book is used to adjust some weights in a matrix. Calling that learning is a distraction from the real copyright violations going on.
- gruez 5mo ago>when we are talking about a person learning something from a webpage or book and something completely different when a webpage or book is used to adjust some weights in a matrix What material differences exist between the two besides "humans good, computers bad"? >Calling that learning is a distraction from the real copyright violations going on. Most courts so far have ruled that it counts as fair use.
- mark336 5mo agoI thought fair use was dead after Napster
- gruez 5mo agoNo, only the type of "fair use" that people slap on their youtube uploads, thinking them it gives them a "get out of jail free" card for copyright infringement. Fair use was repeatedly affirmed in the 2010s, eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....