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Originally Posted by Quoth
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.
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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.