Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

  • bouncing@partizle.com
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    1 year ago

    these companies who have been using copyrighted material - without compensating the content creators - to train their AIs.

    That wouldn’t be copyright infringement.

    It isn’t infringement to use a copyrighted work for whatever purpose you please. What’s infringement is reproducing it.

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        1 year ago

        If I buy my support staff “IT for Dummies”, and they then, sometimes, reproduce the same/similar advice (turn it off and on again), I owe the textbook writers money? That’s news to me.

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        1 year ago

        No, it isn’t. There are enumerated rights a copyright grants the holder a monopoly over. They are reproduction, derivative works, public performances, public displays, distribution, and digital transmission.

        Commercial vs non-commercial has nothing to do with it, nor does field of endeavor. And aside from the granted monopoly, no other rights are granted. A copyright does not let you decide how your work is used once sold.

        I don’t know where you guys get these ideas.

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      1 year ago

      It isn’t infringement to use a copyrighted work for whatever purpose you please.

      and you accused me of “completely misunderstanding copyright law” lmao wow