Tag: copyright
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The Huge Grey Area in the Anthropic Ruling
The court ruling that declares Anthropic's use of (purchased) books as training material leaves a curious sorites paradox. If we assume that an LLM trained on only one book (and so only capable of producing content directly inspired by that book) would necessarily be copyright-infringing, at what number of books does that cease to be the case?
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Minification vs the GPL
Does distributing only minified code violate the GPL? What about if the "minification" is minimal and hand-done as part of other code improvements? There's a grey area here, and Dan's going to overthink it!
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Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
As they bring back the youtube-dl repository, GitHub announce a new set of standards by which they'll assess DMCA claims. Dan approves, and explains why.
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When One Library Steals From Another
What happens when a university library completely rips-off the web design of a different university's library service?