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A long form response to the concerns and comments and general principles many people had in the post about authors suing companies creating LLMs.

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[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 year ago

If I read her book, someone asked me to summarize it and I did - would she sue me for copyright infringement too? Do I need her permission to read her book?

It seems to me like a cheap attempt to advertise her book.

[-] JonVerding@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

To read it in the first place, before you summarize it, you need to obtain it legally by either buying it, or checking it out from the library (which has bought it).

[-] root@precious.net 3 points 1 year ago

Or you sit in the library and "read" it. Now how do you define where the library is? Many libraries loan out digital copies. You can sit in a book store (they exist!) and read a book without purchasing it too.

It's going to be difficult to use the "they couldn't possibly have had legit access to all these books" argument in court.

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