alt Hacker NewsIf you steal a book and read it, should you have to pay every time you use the knowledge gained or recall parts of it from memory?
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drfloyd51 • yesterday at 9:24 PM
If I charged people for the privilege of listening to me recite relevant parts of the book to them for profit? Yes. Depending on the copyright.
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swader999 • yesterday at 9:27 PM
If I perform a song in public then yes, I should pay the creator every time I play it. I fail to see the difference here.
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mitthrowaway2 • yesterday at 9:31 PM
What if you steal a CD and then play it on your radio station each morning?
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No. People are not LLMs. And even if some argue that they are mechanically similar, they are legally distinct.