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Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by TeMPOraL on Sunday July 09, 2023 @07:54PM (#36660331)
IANAL either, but FWIW, it's literally in the name - copyright. Not "ownership rights", but "copying rights".
Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by jprete on Sunday July 09, 2023 @09:01PM (#36660783)
That's not terribly relevant for Internet applications, because for the most part people deliberately cause the computer they control to download and save copyrighted material to storage they control, and then consume it at leisure. That's copying.
Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by TeMPOraL on Monday July 10, 2023 @03:16AM (#36663052)
That still means you'd have to show the user actually made a copy themselves - that's different than learning they possess one.
Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by ben_w on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:05AM (#36663367)
If I understand right (I'm not a lawyer), something like this came up in a case about a utility for cheating in an online game, and another much older one about the copy of an app made in memory in order to run it.

For the purpose for which the software was sold and bought, the in-memory copy is legit[1]. For cheating, it's a copyright violation[0].

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2008-07-15-blizzard-wins-lawsuit-ag...

[1] http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise20.html