🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoMake illegally trained LLMs public domain as punishmentwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square121fedilinkarrow-up11.18Kfile-text
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minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoAm I allowed to take a copyrighted image, decrease its size to 1x1 pixels and publish it? What about 2x2? It’s very much not clear when a modification violates copyright because copyright is extremely vague to begin with.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoJust because something is defined legally instead of technologically, that doesn’t make it vague. The modification violates copyright when the result is a derivative work; no more, no less.
Am I allowed to take a copyrighted image, decrease its size to 1x1 pixels and publish it? What about 2x2?
It’s very much not clear when a modification violates copyright because copyright is extremely vague to begin with.
Just because something is defined legally instead of technologically, that doesn’t make it vague. The modification violates copyright when the result is a derivative work; no more, no less.