In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.

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    1 year ago

    Derivative works are only copyright violations when they replicate substantial portions of the original without changes.

    The entirety of human civilization is derivative works. Derivative works aren’t infringement.

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        It absolutely is. There’s nothing out there in the past thousand years that isn’t based on other prior art, copyright law only replies to direct copies, and there are explicit cutouts past that that allow you to directly copy some things if your work is transformative.