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Old 02-10-2025, 03:36 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
Legally as in an obtained licence. But any Publisher is really violating rights of the author to do that without the author's permission. Like if a publisher gets rights for a book, they can't produce an audio book, TV series, play, Cinema, sell prints & models of characters, produce a translation.

Considering what LLMs do, the idea of fair use even via a licence is obnoxious. Most authors I know would never agree. It's a "licence" to let the LLM users plagiarise. Really ANYTHING other than using PD works is violation of rights of ANY content creator, including bloggers and forum posts. A use that was never intended. They can't be forbidden from using PD content.
But when a publisher sells a book, I can buy it. And then I can write and publish a "Cliff's Notes" version using the book that discusses important themes, characters, plot points and memorable quotes. And if I can do it as a person, there's a reasonable argument that a LLM should be allowed to do something similar. I don't see that as fundamentally different than what they already do. The publisher doesn't get to say "don't use this book to write a book about the book."

If I could get chatGPT to quote me a full chapter out of Harry Potter word for word, that would be one thing. But I'm pretty sure it can't.
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