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| ▲ | Timwi 8 months ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not sure about US or other jurisdictions, but that's not how any of this works in Germany. In Germany downloading anything from anywhere (even a movie) is never illegal and does not require a license. What's illegal is publishing/disseminating copyrighted content without authorization. BitTorrenting a movie is illegal because you're distributing it to other torrenters. Streaming a movie on your website is illegal because it's public. You can be held liable for using a photo from the web to illustrate your eBay auction, not because you downloaded it but because you republished it. OpenAI (and Google and everyone else) is creating a publicly-accessible system that produces output that could be derived from copyrighted material. |
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| ▲ | Suppafly 7 months ago | parent | next [-] | | I think it works like that in Canada and some other places too, because they pay an extra tax on storage media when they buy it, which essentially authorizes a license for any copyrighted material that might be stored on that media. | |
| ▲ | Tomte 8 months ago | parent | prev [-] | | > In Germany […] That‘s confidently and completely wrong. |
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| ▲ | wvenable 7 months ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I'm only allowed to view it? I can't download it, convert each word into a color, and create a weird piece of art work out of it? I think I can. |
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| ▲ | Suppafly 7 months ago | parent [-] | | >convert each word into a color, and create a weird piece of art work out of it? I think I can. I agree, but the original author might get butthurt if you distribute it. Realistically copyright law in the US is a mess when it comes to weird pieces of art. |
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