Lawyers of all the most beloved companies - Disney, New York Times, book publishers, music publishers and more - are now engaged in court battles, trying to sue all kinds of AI companies for "copyright infringement".
So far, case law is shaping up towards "nope, AI training is fair use". As it well should.
Re:I Am An AI Hater
by _DeadFred_ on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:54PM
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If your product wouldn't exist without inputting someone else's product, it is derivative of that someone else's product. This isn't a human learning. This is a corporate, for profit product, it is derivative, and violates copyright.
That's not the standard we hold "human generated" media to. Not even "mockbusters" are illegal under copyright law. Nothing is new and everything is a remix. And I see no reason to make an exception for AI.
Copyright law is a disgrace, and copyright should be cut down massively - not made into an even more far-reaching anti-freedom abomination than it already is.
> Nothing is new and everything is a remix.
This is absolutely not true.
Re:I Am An AI Hater
by dpoloncsak on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @04:30PM
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Yeah, it's a fair point. We have seen a clear abuse of our copyright system.
I think the main problem for me is that these companies benefit from copyright - by beating anyone they can reach with the DMCA stick - and are now also showing they don't actually care about it at all and when they do it, it's ok.
Go ahead, AI companies. End copyright law. Do it. Start lobbying now.
(They won't, they'll just continue to eat their cake and have it too).