Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly okay to steal content if it’s on the open web
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That is not how fair use works.
    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      !Arthur Dent has his home demolished while humans simultaneously have Earth demolished by an alien race called Vogons, but him and Ford Prefect escape by hitchhiking onto the Vogon ship. They’re discovered and thrown into space, but miraculously saved by Ford’s relative (can’t remember how they’re related) and his ship The Heart of Gold, which is powerful but unpredictable. They wind up on a mythical planet due to that unpredictability, and learn that Earth was a designer planet created to calculate the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. (The famous “42” thing). The whole crew escapes the planet and decides to go to The Restaurant at the End of The Universe to eat and watch the universe end.!<

      Have I just stolen The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and given it to you?

    • ayaya@lemdro.idEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Again, even an exact copy is not stealing. It’s copyright infringement. Theft is a different crime.

      But paraphrasing is not copyright infringement either. It’s no different than Wikipedia having a synopsis for every single episode of a TV series. Telling someone about what a work contains for informational purposes is perfectly fine.