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by Kim_Bruning 731 days ago
It's easier if you're not trying to make a profit I think. Eg. LAOIN seems to be weathering the inevitable legal storms as well as might be expected.
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Yeah, because:

1. There is a text and data mining exemption for both for profit and non profit in the EU

2. Laions datasets are just lists of links to images on the open Internet together with their alt text

3. Seems to be a much bigger copyright cartel for music than images