Brief update about software freedom and artificial intelligence

[Daniel Lange]

I note that fair use isn't a worldwide concept and other parts of the
world have the more varied and restricted concept of "fair dealing".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Influence_internationally
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing
So, as much as possible, we should try not to rely on fair use.

The Wikimedia Foundation fellow and legal counsel Valentina Vera-Quiroz
(CC) has documented her current expertise around ChatGPT and Copyright at

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_Analysis_of_ChatGPT

I just wanted to drop the link on this thread as it starts to be a good
collection of references. We may need that some time in the future.

[Russ Allbery]

Post by Daniel Lange

I note that fair use isn't a worldwide concept and other parts of the
world have the more varied and restricted concept of "fair dealing".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Influence_internationally
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing
So, as much as possible, we should try not to rely on fair use.

The Wikimedia Foundation fellow and legal counsel Valentina Vera-Quiroz
(CC) has documented her current expertise around ChatGPT and Copyright at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_Analysis_of_ChatGPT

Oh, thank you very much for this link, and thank you to Valentina for
writing this!

The section "Can you use copyright-protected works to train AI models?"
says exactly what I was attempting to say in my previous contributions to
this thread, except more clearly, accurately, and succinctly. Anyone who
was reading my previous messages should just go read that instead.