Consider an AI chatbot platform. If this platform doesn’t allow users to create characters (that are stored on their centralized service) that infringe IP, but allows users to import character definition files that do so from external sites (that are created by community members, and may contain copyright-protected characters), without permanently storing (or storing for private use), is the owner responsible for IP infringement?
IANAL but one would sau , “It depends.”
Questions in capitalist systems should always start with money. Does anyone profit or lose perceived value by the uses described? If yes, the plaintiff has the beginning of a case