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The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.’s Use of Copyrighted Work

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Post by berniedurfee »

donohoe wrote: post #8
berniedurfee wrote: post #5

This will be an interesting inflection point for humanity. Though, call me jaded, but I can’t help but doubt that the _actual_ content creators, the writers themselves, will see any of the money should The Times win or settle the case.

The content creators for the Times have already been paid for their work.

They were paid when the original content was to be printed or posted on the internet.

Subsequently selling (or extracting compensation for) those works to AI companies is an emergent revenue stream.

I suppose the NYT isn’t legally obligated to share that revenue fairly with the authors, but it’d be awful nice if they did.

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Post by lobsterthief »

berniedurfee wrote: post #11
donohoe wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The content creators for the Times have already been paid for their work.

They were paid when the original content was to be printed or posted on the internet. Subsequently selling (or extracting compensation for) those works to AI companies is an emergent revenue stream. I suppose the NYT isn’t legally obligated to share that revenue fairly with the authors, but it’d be awful nice if they did.

Believe me, publishers have enough trouble keeping writers employed. If they could give them a larger cut or do some kind of revenue share, most editors and GMs would love to (and many do).

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Post by mhss »

gniv wrote: post #7
cranberryturkey wrote: post #3

heh. good luck with that one. everyone is crawling the web now. why didn't they sue google for using their content in the serps?

There are significant differences: attribution and snippetting. OpenAI probably cannot claim these.

And Google search doesn't "generate" new content that potentially puts out of business the very same entities it learned from.
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