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Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy

Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy

Posted May 12, 2024 20:05 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy by josh
Parent article: Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy

> no special exception should exist for AI.

And this is the whole point of Berne. Different countries, different rules (same basic framework). But works have to be protected identically regardless of nationality. Which comes as a result of the American abuse of copyright pre-1984'ish. One only has to look at the AT&T/BSD suit, where AT&T removed copyright notices and effectively placed OTHER PEOPLES' COPYRIGHTED WORK into the Public Domain.

Going back, Disney's Fantasia where they used European works and completely ignored copyright. Go back even further to Gilbert & Sullivans "The Pirates of New York" where they had to go to extreme lengths to prevent other people copyrighting their work and preventing them from performing their own work in the US.

THERE IS NO SPECIAL EXCEPTION FOR AI. Not even in Europe. As a person, you are free to study copyrighted works for your own education. European Law makes it explicit that "educating" an AI is the same as educating a person. Presumably the same rules apply to an AI regurgitating what it's learnt, as to a human. If it's indistinguishable from (or clearly based on) the input, then it's a copyright violation. The problem is, be it human or AI, what do you mean by "clearly based on".

Cheers,
Wol


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