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Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property (www.axios.com)
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[โ€“] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If AI continues to be treated as transformative work, there should also be a valid case to kill licensing requirements for sampling music. After all, there you're literally using small clips of someone's music or similar to make undeniably new art.

[โ€“] NuanceDemon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

To be fair, that should have happened a long time ago. Copyright law hasn't been fit for purpose for a long time.