AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

19 pointsposted 20 hours ago
by reasonableklout

2 Comments

rcxdude

16 hours ago

This particular use of copyrighted material for training was ruled not fair use. I think a lot of engineers are hoping/expecting a clear line on whether all training is or is not fair use, like for example many claims that you could use it to essentially launder copyright off of some work while still keeping it fundamentally the same. This ruling seems to be a relatively obvious rejection of that viewpoint but doesn't necessarily apply to all training generally.

m4rtink

14 hours ago

Yeah, ingesting terabytes of GPLv3 code into the machine to have it then produce proprietary code under a subscription is not OK.