Comment by skissane
1 day ago
The problem is, can you demonstrate that originality of selection and arrangement actually survives in the trained model? It is legally doubtful.
Nobody knows for sure what the legal answer is, because the question hasn’t been considered by a court - but the consensus of expert legal opinion is copyrightability of models is doubtful under US law, and the kind of argument you make isn’t strong enough to change that. As I said, different case for UK law, nobody really needs your argument there because model weights likely are copyrightable in the UK already
> The problem is, can you demonstrate that originality of selection and arrangement actually survives in the trained model? It is legally doubtful.
It's particularly perilous since the AI trainers are at the same time in a position where they want to argue that copyrighted work they included in the training data don't actually survive in the trained model.