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Does this mean someone could develop a switch emulator using an AI and Nintendo couldn't win a lawsuit against them? Does it enable decompilation remasters of
by apatheticonion 1mo ago
Does this mean someone could develop a switch emulator using an AI and Nintendo couldn't win a lawsuit against them?
Does it enable decompilation remasters of classic games?
It feels like AI is a cleanroom laundromat
- jdswain 1mo agoNot a lawyer, but I'd expect that decompilation creates a derived work which is still subject to the copyright of the original.
- unified101 1mo agoIf you engineer a clean room process, it does not. Already proven with an open source project that went from GPL to MIT via clean room (chardet).
- apatheticonion 1mo agoExactly this. Using an LLM to study the decompiled output then another LLM to implement an emulator/engine/etc That sounds similar to how LLMs have been trained on GPL code and yet output is not (yet) considered derivative work
- smilespray 1mo agoDefinitely not clean room, quite the opposite.
- cwillu 1mo ago“That doesn't give you copyright, but it does give you liability for the content.”
- lg5689 1mo agoNo, an AI's output can still violate copyright.
- dgellow 1mo agoIm not sure it’s really a copyright issue here, and not patent or trademark related, or something else. Copyright is really only one aspect of IP laws and they all have their own legal nuances