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by JoosToopit 733 days ago
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What if while reading you make notes - are you strealing content? If yes - should then people be forbidden from taking notes? How does writing down a note onto a piece of paper differ from writing it into your memory?

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The nice thing about law as opposed to programming is that legal scholars have long realized it's impossible to cover every possible edge case in writing so judges exist to interpret the law

So they could easily decide logically unsound things that make pedants go nuts, like taking notes, or even an AI system that automatically takes notes, could be obvious fair use, while recording the exact same strings for training AI are not.

> The nice thing about law as opposed to programming

in programming that is called "Undefined behavior"