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If I use a reversed Jay-Z sample in my music, I will still get sued. This is just a couple of orders of magnitude higher abstraction.
This argument cannot possibly hold in any court. This has not been the 'contract'. I cannot reproduce the content of a newspapers online outlet, I cannot reproduce the art of another artist on Instagram, I cannot reproduce someones Youtube video without permission. This same thing sparked the whole fair-use debate some years ago.
The exceptions to these rules have always existed in limbos of regulatory grey areas and are being discussed for decades now.
This guy is still living in the Napster-era apparently and the amount of gaslighting Microsoft, OpenAI, Google etc. perform right now to freeload on data is presumptuous.