Hello!

Greg Hogan <[email protected]> skribis:

> "Not copyrightable" just means public domain, and all free software
> licenses are compatible with the public domain (FSF discusses the GPL
> and public domain in their FAQ:
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html).

Yes.  There seems to be consensus that copyright only applies to
“creative” human-made artifacts, and thus does not apply to artifacts
created by machines without human intervention (what happens for things
“partially created” by the machine is a grey area):

  • study from the EU Parliament:
    
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2025/774095/IUST_STU(2025)774095_EN.pdf

  • US Copyright Office:
    
https://copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf

  • US Congress:
    https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10922

It does mean that the copyleft license applicable to some of the inputs
of these LLMs is being laundered, which I find problematic.

Ludo’.

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