[gwern]

> Anyway, it's emitting lots of text that clearly carries with it copyrights of human authors, under the current very expansive US copyright law designed to privatize fanfic.

That's not copyright: you aren't copying the fixed expression of a Harry Potter work. (Where does any of that quote any of the Harry Potter books?) That's trademark, at best.

[kragen]

That would be the case under a sane copyright law, but that law is not US jurisprudence: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1228977?seq=1 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3263155 or Indian jurisprudence: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=463bb451-7b6a...