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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by aetherspawn on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:45AM (#35419448)
IANAL either, but the license still applies to the end-user (the person who trained the AI) so it would seem like it would add at least 1 non-trivial license violation for that user?

Edit: I googled "fair use copyright US" and have now decided that US copyright law is stupid.

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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by EMIRELADERO on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:01AM (#35419570)
> Edit: I googled "fair use copyright US" and have now decided that US copyright law is stupid.

Don't be like that. Fair use is what allowed VCRs to continue existing, what allows Google Images and Books to exist, what allows the development of emulators... I could go on.

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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by UberFly on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:51AM (#35419969)
"I googled "fair use copyright US" and have now decided that US copyright law is stupid"

How long exactly did you study the issue? It is very complex.

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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by popinman322 on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:06AM (#35419610)
> I googled "fair use copyright US" and have now decided that US copyright law is stupid.

Fair use helps artists, journalists, and (indirectly) the general public. It prevents censorship of critical or opposing views, among a lot of other uses that are beneficial to society (see sibling comment). US copyright law is backwards in a lot of ways but this isn't one of them.

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