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I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.
Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training
Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books.
wapo.st
June 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.
“Wang: the last dong bender”
April 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
“Wang: the last dong bender”
@ryannorth.ca dude, I’m so far behind on your FF book. Just read the Doom issue. Holy moly that was a great comic, lots of fun!
December 29, 2024 at 6:00 PM
@ryannorth.ca dude, I’m so far behind on your FF book. Just read the Doom issue. Holy moly that was a great comic, lots of fun!