Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by jnovek on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:53PM (#49024696)

If I make Bambi 2 and toss it up on YouTube I’m going to be sued by Disney for a wide variety of intellectual property violations, it doesn’t matter if I make it by hand or via an LLM. Nothing has changed for big organizations with a legal team.

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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by spwa4 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @03:21PM (#49026748)

Sued ... of course. But what will they claim? The courts have declared that training an LLM on copyrighted data and then having it produce anything DOES NOT make a derivative for the purposes of copyright. That it is fully owned by the person who used the LLM and zero licenses are needed to sell it, rent it out, or whatever.

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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by stale2002 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:19PM (#49029821)

> But what will they claim?

> DOES NOT make a derivative for the purposes of copyright

Or maybe you have misunderstood the ruling and thats why the stocks of these companies hasn't plunged.

Seeing as your prediction completely failed, it seems way more likely that actually you just misunderstood the ruling.

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