Comment by qwytw

3 hours ago

> the marginal value that the next buyer would buy

Well the argument is that they should pay for the right to produce derivative works not for the physical copy.

Given the specific of the "derived works" being produced, do you feel obliged to pay royalties every time you cite or use some knowledge acquired from a book during your daily life?

  • Well no, but I'm a human and not a commercial computer program so it's not particularly relevant. I'm would not be making loads of money making those citations either but that's only secondary.

    > derived works

    It's not evident that any works are being produced in the legal sense. Since LLM outputs are not considered copyrightable it's probably closer to using a search engine.