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by bandrami 37 days ago
Free over-the-air network TV is (generally) copyrighted.

The output of LLMs cannot be copyrighted. This isn't a semantic game; it's literally the case that Anthropic cannot seek relief for people duplicating the output of an LLM.
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eloisius 37 days ago
With you, but I suppose they could have a case for circumventing access restrictions under the DMCA aka leet hacking.
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bandrami 37 days ago
The relief available to a licensor for violating a license use restriction is cancellation of the license. And they're free to do that, just like Alibaba is free to pay somebody in Hyderabad $20 to make another one.

DMCA can't apply in this case because (this is the "C" in its initialism) it is based on copyright protections, which the output of Claude is not eligible for.

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eloisius 37 days ago
I won’t go too far into the weeds, because I’m not an internet lawyer, and I basically agree with you, but I do believe there are access restriction laws that are not only limited to copyright violation. People have gone to prison for enumerating sequential identifiers in URLs to access records they shouldn’t be able to. I don’t know if Anthropic could actually make a case there, but it seems plausible at least.
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wqaatwt 37 days ago
An endless list of tangential analogies isn’t really a valid argument..

DMCA has as little to do with this as streaming copyrighted content

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