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Re:Facebook is aggressively going after LLaMA repos with DMCA's by sillysaurusx on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:08AM (#35288534)
If anyone's willing to fund the legal battle, let me know. (You can DM me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theshawwn)

I'd be willing to issue a DMCA counterclaim for llama-dl on the grounds that model weights are not copyrightable. If it's worth settling the question in court, then this seems like a good opportunity.

I wrote more about this further downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35288415

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Re:Facebook is aggressively going after LLaMA repos with DMCA's by ISL on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:53AM (#35289108)
If Meta has registered the work with the copyright office, the statutory damages in this case, should llama-dl lose, might be quite large.

Check in with an attorney before launching a battle with an opponent who has unlimited resources. There are likely to be many similar test cases in the coming year, perhaps more-readily fought.

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Re:Facebook is aggressively going after LLaMA repos with DMCA's by freejazz on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:12PM (#35292213)
It's not a clear issue of law so atty's fees aren't going to be shifted in a case like this.
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