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Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet by Sharlin on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:33PM (#46653113)
I don't think so. Because LLMs aren't legal persons (yet?!), they can neither have copyright to anything nor violate someone else's copyright. IANAL but the most reasonable legal interpretation is likely that any IP violations are actually committed by whoever it was who asked an LLM to "rewrite" something in a way that obviously counts as a derived work rather than a cleanroom implementation.
Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet by jacquesm on Saturday January 17, 2026 @06:46AM (#46657274)
Correct.