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ddj231 • yesterday at 8:22 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> “The essential problem … is what economists call ‘transaction costs,’” Goldstein wrote in an email to The Daily. “Millions of individual copyrighted works may be copied in the course of any training incident, and it’s simply impracticable for the platform to obtain licenses from the copyright owner of every — or, indeed, any — single work.”

Seems strange. The question should be whether you legally have to do so or not. If you do whether it is impractical or not is not a reason to break the law. Perhaps it makes your business not feasible but so be it. If you ran a clothing store that required you steal from other brands and remix it for your customers, you couldn't say "it's impractical for me to get permission", no?


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JK-Swizzle • yesterday at 8:35 PM

I was thinking the same thing reading that.

If this argument is extrapolated, why should streaming services get the rights to copyrighted works? It sounds like a lot of work.

Hell, why would Pirate Bay be any different than Anthropic in this case? Millions of pieces of copyrighted work, being used as intake rather than sold.

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rafabulsing • today at 12:10 AM

Yeah, that's exactly my though every time this argument is brought up. "Obviously this endeavor is not economically viable if I had to follow the rules, so I get to skip that part" is such an astounding line of reasoning.