Alex WildPretty fucking bold of these scientists to scrape one of my copyrighted photographs off the internet and then re-release it uncredited under a Creative Commons license because they used it for training data for an algorithm.
Borogove@alexwild It's defensible under fair use for educational purposes. They'd have the most trouble with the "amount" branch of the test. https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/copyrightinfo/fairuse.html
@borogove Fair Use exceptions are unlikely to cover the assumption of rights required to assign a Creative Commons license to other people's works, though. It's the assignment of the license that's the issue, not the use of the images for training algorithms, or the reporting of the methods.