DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering [LWN.net]

DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Jun 23, 2022 18:21 UTC (Thu) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)
Parent article: DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

The EU Copyright Directive allows Text and Data Mining, even for commercial purposes, regardless of what the copyright status and/or license of the text body is. I don't see how any terms of the original license (if even there is one) apply. If you have legal access to a body of proprietary text, you can still legally do TDM on it and train a model.

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DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Jun 23, 2022 18:43 UTC (Thu) by bluss (guest, #47454) [Link] (1 responses)

It doesn't give you a blanket reason to publish parts of the corpus, though. Maybe it is not prescient in how the "analysis" (outcome) of the data mining might be a derivative of the data itself.

DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Jun 23, 2022 19:38 UTC (Thu) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link]

Where is that clause defined?