Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Buttons840 832 days ago
It's questioned whether copyright applies at all. If it does not, then license doesn't matter either.
2 comments

At least in the US, the Supreme Court has decided in the past that shrinkwrap licenses can be used to put restrictions on works that copyright doesn't apply to (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProCD,_Inc._v._Zeidenberg), so I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing clickwrap "you agree not to train AI on this page without the author's explicit permission" licenses.
Exactly.

And if copyright applies, wouldnt it imply that someone learning something from a book could also then be controlled by the licensing of said book on how their gained knowledge could be utilized in the future?

No, because AI training is not human learning.