Comment by derefr

I've wondered about this for a while now (where e.g. some models of HuggingFace require clickwrap license agreements to download, that try to prohibit you from using the model in certain ways.)

It seems to me that if some anonymous ne'er-do-well were to publicly re-host the model files for separate download; and you acquired the files from that person, rather than from Google; then you wouldn't be subject to their license, as you never so much as saw the clickwrap.

(And you wouldn't be committing IP theft by acquiring it from that person, either, because of the non-copyrightability.)

I feel that there must be something wrong with that logic, but I can't for the life of me think of what it is.