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A comment on Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement. Parent comment

Re:Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's ... by triceratops on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @05:47PM (#48029085)
Training requires making copies. Even if Meta had purchased each work they'd have had to make copies of it to distribute around the training cluster.
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Re:Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's ... by qarl on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @05:56PM (#48029190)
Does it though? If they bought a copy for each machine?
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Re:Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's ... by triceratops on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @06:37PM (#48029689)
Then no copying happened so they'd be on firmer legal ground.
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Re:Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's ... by qarl on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @06:50PM (#48029814)
Good, we're agreed. My only point here is that training is not inherently a copyright violation.
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