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It is almost certainly the case that current IP law is very unsettled when it comes to machine learning models and mechanisms that encode a particular training set into the output or mechanism for input transformation. What should probably scare the shit out of people looking to commercialize this sort of ML is that the most readily available precedents for the courts to look at are from the music industry, and some of the outcomes have truly been wacky IMHO. The 'blurred lines' case is the one that should keep tech lawyers up at night, because if something like that gets applied to ML models the entire industry is in for a world of pain.