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Intellectual Property Watch / Elise De Geyter / Sep 11, 2017
“We’re approaching what I call a ‘fair use dilemma,’ because, in the context of commercial, expressive machine learning, no outcome seems desirable. If expressive machine learning weren’t fair use, an author could seek outsize remedies simply because her work ended up in a training dataset among thousands of other works…Then again, if fair use gave companies carte blanche to train AI on copyrighted works without compensating authors, human creators would miss out on income that the spirit, and arguably the letter, of copyright law entitle them to receive.”
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