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Oh god no, trust me, I'm an academic. I'd rather read an AI essay than the stuff some of my students write.

Fair use doesn't exist in the UK.

You can only copyright the actual expression of a recipe as a literary work, but the functional aspect, the cake let's say, isn't copyrightable.

> I doubt these companies constantly downloading the full training set rather than keeping it in a database somewhere. Precisely to argue for transient copies, they don't need to k…

But that's the issue, they're not serving copyright content to users in the UK because the outputs aren't derivative, the legal question is very narrow, it is about the training of…

I know, I'm a lawyer. Fair dealing is closed-ended, and the TDM exception doesn't apply to StabilityAI as they're not a research institution, their best defence is that the trainin…

Reciting common text or common license elements and commentary isn't necessarily copyright infringement.

>The fair use excuses here are absolutely weak in Stability's case and this will only end with a licensing deal being made. There's no fair use in the UK, and this decision is prel…

>I’m saying; if you’re covering a court case, don’t go off on a tangent and start saying things which are misleading or false with regard to the case. This adds the caveat "as far …

>There is, to my knowledge, no mitigation of this that has been implemented, or even conceptualized by either stability or anyone else. I've tried with newer models, and you can't …

Theft has specific meaning in law, and it's reserved for physical property (or unique digital assets and financial instruments like bonds). Copyright uses infringement, which is no…

The defendants will evidently claim transient copying.

Derivative work has a specific meaning in copyright law, there has to be something in the output, and that's not the case here. Otherwise every single owner of 5 billion images cou…

I'm finding it amusing that everyone immediately assumes infringement, OpenAI is a company that will not be inviting lawsuits. We can't assume any licensing behind closed doors, my…

It's more difficult to trademark stuff like style, there are certain rules of what can be trademarked; long story short, non-graphical representations need to be clear, precise, se…

Characters are different, as recognisable characters have copyright on their own (not all characters do). But let's say you're drawing a painting from memory, you may or may not be…

The Lightning Network? Really?

The UK academic titles are very specific: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Reader (short of US tenure), Professor. I can't call myself a lectu…

Sorry to be pedantic about this (I'm an academic), but the fact that he tutors and lectures doesn't make him a lecturer. A law lecturer is someone who has been hired and holds that…

Agreed, something just doesn't seem right about the story.

I have some serious doubts about this story. Strathclyde Law School does not have Mark Leiser listed as a law lecturer. Searching for "Mark Leiser Strathclyde" produced a page that…