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>campaign that's stopping IP lawyers from litigating the case

Many already settled out of court with Disney due to trademark violations, then killed a popular project mostly used for Star-wars satire at the time.

Best of luck =3

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That seems to suggest that Disney's lawyers agree. You can use AI to violate copyright laws no different from a text editor or Bittorrent, but training it on copyright material isn't inherently illegal.

> training it on copyright material isn't inherently illegal

Unless folks spider sites that clearly state the terms of use prohibit such actions, violate GPL licenses, and scrape private conversations or markup input.

Also, fair-use loopholes that protect academics don't always apply in a commercial context. The encoding of the data in a proximity vector search space is irrelevant. =3

Fair-use doesn't specifically protect "academics" at all. It does apply consistently in a commercial context, even to the GPL, which is the clear intent of it in-law.

In general, commercial entities have to be more cautious what they "think" international copyright and trademark laws cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhgYMH6n004

I would also recommend this book if people tire of the marketing hype. =3

"Gilded Rage" (Jacob Silverman, 2025)

https://www.amazon.com/Gilded-Rage-Radicalization-Silicon-Va...

That's why companies hire lawyers. The lawyers seemingly agree on the legality in American law, which is why we aren't seeing any vindication of Suchir's protest.

>which is why we aren't seeing any vindication

Could also be regulatory capture, and Sealioning. =3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

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