Mastodawn

RE: https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271

The blatent use of "AI" to strip copyleft and claim that obvious derivatives are "reimplementations" has begun. This must be fought. Start filing license violation bug reports and abuse reports on projects like this.

(Link here because the quoted post author or their instance seems to have something wrong with their quoting permissions: https://hachyderm.io/@[email protected]ocial/116170859816301768)

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RevK

Mar 4

@dalias but doing so surely losses all copyright so licence does not matter?

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Cassandrich Mar 4

@revk No, it doesn't. That's what they're trying to claim and warp the recent court case to say (a case that wasn't even about LLM output) and it's obvious nonsense.

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Cassandrich

@revk Copyright is complex because there are potentially multiple copyright holders when derivative works are involved, and all of their permissions are needed. The court case found that purely machine-produced novelty (which wasn't even LLM and didn't involve derivative works) does not get copyright protection awarded to it. But that has nothing to do with the existing copyrights on any works the output was derived from.