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Fair use, if it does indeed apply, doesn't care about license


I doubt it's still fair use if you become one of most valuable companies, hence the word "fair" in fair use.


It's a specific legal term - so the everyday meaning of the words isn't relevant as far as I understand it.


There is a reason why the word was chosen, in essence, it is about the meaning of the word


The value of a company has nothing to do with whether copyright applies.


Unless the value of the company is based on one product with alleged copyright infringement.

OpenAI has one asset: GPT.

>Commercial use does not automatically make the use copyright infringement, but it is an important deciding factor.

https://saltiellawgroup.com/2021/10/%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bcan-yo...


That says nothing about the value of the company.

If it's an infringement when OpenAI does it, it would be an infringement when a company with 1/1000th the value did it.


The fair in fair use has nothing to do with the size of a company. If Disney produces a satire of Penny Arcade, that's still fair use of Penny Arcade's IP.


Satire is always linked to the object of the satire, that's he fair part.

LLM text and images aren't.




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