A federal judge in California issued a landmark ruling that protects the development of artificial intelligence and creative freedom by determining that training AI systems on copyrighted books constitutes fair use under copyright law.
William Alsup tends to rule well on tech cases. He learned Java so he could follow the arguments better in Oracle v Google. I wonder if the rolling will survive the boomers on the circuit bench
This was a point that I raised repeatedly and it was so obvious that it astonished me how the various authors and publishers would try to pretend that any consumption and utilization of a text could somehow violate copyright WHEN NOTHING WAS BEING COPIED. Being used as a reference for a new creation is obviously a Fair Use.
And you can't protect look-and-feel. See: Apple vs Microsoft.
They're so deranged about AI in general I brought it up in an author group and said, "what about this, you're writing a fantasy book and you put elves and orcs in it, should you not be allowed to because Tolkien did it first?" And the guy simply raged at me in response. It's all emotional with no substance for their arguments.
Excellent! I was really hoping for a good ruling on this.
William Alsup tends to rule well on tech cases. He learned Java so he could follow the arguments better in Oracle v Google. I wonder if the rolling will survive the boomers on the circuit bench
This was a point that I raised repeatedly and it was so obvious that it astonished me how the various authors and publishers would try to pretend that any consumption and utilization of a text could somehow violate copyright WHEN NOTHING WAS BEING COPIED. Being used as a reference for a new creation is obviously a Fair Use.
And you can't protect look-and-feel. See: Apple vs Microsoft.
Alsup was also the judge on the Oracle vs Google case re Java, and learned to program enough to make a good decision on APIs there as well.
Exemplar judge.
Look at LEGO, lol.
They're so deranged about AI in general I brought it up in an author group and said, "what about this, you're writing a fantasy book and you put elves and orcs in it, should you not be allowed to because Tolkien did it first?" And the guy simply raged at me in response. It's all emotional with no substance for their arguments.
Its a gut level reaction to knowing they will write slop.
It was an industry. Now a better writer or editor and a AI can do it better and faster.