[altairprime]

Well, in the eyes of the EU, the entire 'fair use' thing doesn't exist there at all (per the EU's own JURI, which I think is roughly the equivalent of the U.S.'s Office of the Attorney General, with similar duties around defining the canonical interpretations of the laws).

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2025/7740...

Two relevant bits, dug out from the 175-page whole:

> Although the Act tries to address this by extending obligations to any provider placing a GPAI model on the EU market, the extraterritorial enforcement of these obligations remains highly uncertain due to the territorial nature of copyright law and the practical difficulty of pursuing infringement claims when training occurs under foreign legal standards, such as U.S. fair use.

and:

> Finally, it is important to clarify that the current EU framework provides a closed list of exceptions and does not recognise a general fair use defence. As a result, AI-generated outputs that include protected expression without a valid exception remain unlawful.

It seems to be dated the same month as DDG's analysis, July 2025, so I would expect the MIT Non-AI License that we're discussing here to be much more defensible in the EU than in the U.S. — as long as one studies that full 175-page "Generative AI and Copyright" analysis and ensures that it addresses the salient points necessary to apply and enforce in EU copyright terms. (Queued for my someday-future :)