alt Hacker NewsI don't see any mention of having to own warcraft 3 to use its assets...
This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process.
Did anyone vote an exemption from copyright if it's for "AI" use?
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Let me shed a tear for activision blizzard the poor artists corporation.
One good thing about genai is that it will force us to rethink the mess that is copyright
If there is one good thing about AI, it is that it might finally buldoze existing ecosystem.
> This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process.
Not necessarily. This could be considered a quotation of a trivial part of a larger work, making the use legal in the US under its fair use doctrine.
Additionally, I'm not aware of any obvious way that this use could harm the commercial market for Warcraft 3 (and the other games whose voice packs are included in this repository). The use here does not compete with the original, and if anything it might drive sales on the margin through nostalgic reminders.
protect the corporations!
I never voted for any of the copyright laws, and hope those archaic tools of oppression get tossed out entirely.
If given the option to vote for this, yes I would absolutely vote for an exemption.
But also, this is clearly "Fair Use" even under our current draconian copyright laws.
Copyright is about as dead as any party you happen to walk into.