>By that logic you're violating copyright by using a web browser.

You would be except for the fact that publishing stuff on the web gives people an implicit license to download it for the purposes of viewing it.

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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.

	▲	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.

	▲	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.