A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    US Courts have already ruled in the past that human authorship is required for copyright

    Irrelevant to the issue at hand. Here, Silverman is the only one making a copyright claim. ChatGPT is not claiming a copyright on its output.

    It’d be a logical conclusion as such that human authorship would also be required to justify a fair use defence.

    I disagree. Nothing about “fair use” requires that the work be copyrighted on its own, or even copyrightable. It simply can’t be subject to the original copyright.

    A summary is a “transformative derivation”. Even if that summary cannot be copyrighted on its for some reason, it is not subject to the copyright of the original work.