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Originally Posted by Quoth
If you take copyright content from pirate sites and "some how reshare it" is it copyright violation?
DRM arguments are irrelevant?. Source is irrelevant? It's what you do with the content that will count in court?
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"Some how reshare it" is going to need to be defined. It's either being reshared, or it isn't. If "somehow" means anything other than sharing the downloaded original in its entirety, then the answer to whether or not it's copyright violation is maybe/maybe not.
If you mean "shared" as in new fiction created by systems trained on the originals, then my guess is probably not.
But otherwise, yes. I think it's the latter: "It's what you do with the content that will count in court."
In the case of chatGPT and others using pirated downloads/scrapes to train their algorithms, I find the question of copyright to be moot. If it can be proved they used (or are using) pirated downloads/scrapes to train their algorithms, then they should be prosecuted for mass piracy.
If they (or anyone) used legally obtained (DRM irrelevant) copies to train their systems, I don't see a copyright problem either. Those copies are not being disseminated (with or without permission).