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Book Reports Potentially Copyright Infringing, Thanks To Court Attacks On LLMs (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 day ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/legalnews@lemmy.zip

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A federal judge just ruled that computer-generated summaries of novels are “very likely infringing,” which would effectively outlaw many book reports. That seems like a problem.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.606655/gov.uscourts.nysd.606655.716.0.pdf

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

If a description of your work competes with your work, your work suuucks.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 4 points 1 day ago

This isn’t just about AI—it’s about fundamentally redefining what copyright protects. And once again, something that should be perfectly fine is being treated as an evil that must be punished, all because some new machine did it.