On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by fortran77 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:27PM (#39017788)

> I firmly believe that training models qualifies as free use

Can you explain what you mean by "qualifies as free use?" I've never heard that term before.

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by halostatue on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:36PM (#39017931)

The poster probably meant "fair use", which is an American term of copyright law. The UK, Canada, and other commonwealth countries have a concept known as "fair dealing" which is similar to, but different than fair use[1]. EU copyright law has explicitly permitted uses[2] which are exceptions to copyright restrictions. Research is one of them, but requires explicit attribution.

[1] https://library.ulethbridge.ca/copyright/fairdealing/#s-lib-... [2] https://www.ippt.eu/legal-texts/copyright-information-societ...

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by kopecs on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:37PM (#39017942)

I would be reasonably confident they mean "fair use" [1] instead.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

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