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by surfacedetail 7mo ago
Oh god no, trust me, I'm an academic. I'd rather read an AI essay than the stuff some of my students write.
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
Fair use doesn't exist in the UK.
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
You can only copyright the actual expression of a recipe as a literary work, but the functional aspect, the cake let's say, isn't copyrightable.
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
> I doubt these companies constantly downloading the full training set rather than keeping it in a database somewhere. Precisely to argue for transient copies, they don't need to keep terabytes of data stored. >Hard to argue kee
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
But that's the issue, they're not serving copyright content to users in the UK because the outputs aren't derivative, the legal question is very narrow, it is about the training of the model. There will be a separate trade ma
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
I know, I'm a lawyer. Fair dealing is closed-ended, and the TDM exception doesn't apply to StabilityAI as they're not a research institution, their best defence is that the training didn't take place in the UK, or that a
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
Reciting common text or common license elements and commentary isn't necessarily copyright infringement.
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
>The fair use excuses here are absolutely weak in Stability's case and this will only end with a licensing deal being made. There's no fair use in the UK, and this decision is preliminary on whether the case should proceed.
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
>I’m saying; if you’re covering a court case, don’t go off on a tangent and start saying things which are misleading or false with regard to the case. This adds the caveat "as far as I can tell". That's a caveat that the c
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
>There is, to my knowledge, no mitigation of this that has been implemented, or even conceptualized by either stability or anyone else. I've tried with newer models, and you can't produce outputs with Getty logos, if you use &q
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
Theft has specific meaning in law, and it's reserved for physical property (or unique digital assets and financial instruments like bonds). Copyright uses infringement, which is not theft: it's non-rivalrous, and it contains a num
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
The defendants will evidently claim transient copying.
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by surfacedetail 3y ago
Derivative work has a specific meaning in copyright law, there has to be something in the output, and that's not the case here. Otherwise every single owner of 5 billion images could sue you for your "cat at a cafe" midjourne
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by surfacedetail 4y ago
I'm finding it amusing that everyone immediately assumes infringement, OpenAI is a company that will not be inviting lawsuits. We can't assume any licensing behind closed doors, my guess is that OpenAI has an agreement with Getty,
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by surfacedetail 4y ago
It's more difficult to trademark stuff like style, there are certain rules of what can be trademarked; long story short, non-graphical representations need to be clear, precise, self-contained, easily accessible, intelligible, durable
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by surfacedetail 4y ago
Characters are different, as recognisable characters have copyright on their own (not all characters do). But let's say you're drawing a painting from memory, you may or may not be infringing copyright. The question is about subst
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by surfacedetail 8y ago
The Lightning Network? Really?
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by surfacedetail 13y ago
The UK academic titles are very specific: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Reader (short of US tenure), Professor. I can't call myself a lecturer unless I have been appointed to that title. Law deg
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by surfacedetail 13y ago
Sorry to be pedantic about this (I'm an academic), but the fact that he tutors and lectures doesn't make him a lecturer. A law lecturer is someone who has been hired and holds that title. I taught a lot while doing my PhD, and I w
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by surfacedetail 13y ago
Agreed, something just doesn't seem right about the story.
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by surfacedetail 13y ago
I have some serious doubts about this story. Strathclyde Law School does not have Mark Leiser listed as a law lecturer. Searching for "Mark Leiser Strathclyde" produced a page that seems to indicate that he's a PhD student. I