What I'm gathering from this discussion is that the
participants* already* have an obligation to disclose contributors, as Brian
quoted. This leads me to two questions:
1. What if they don't and it is discovered prior to publication of an RFC?
2. What if they don't and it is discovered after publication of an RFC?
Specifically, who has what responsibility to do what? A simple erratum does
not clear a document of a potential copyright violation, although it does at
least correct the lack of acknowledgment.
Historically, the answer has been that we don't do anything, viz. RFC 20.
Other than that, I'm not aware of any RFCs that have that kind of
copyright issues. As I expect you're aware, giving credit is not a
defense to copyright violation. Plagiarism and copyright are only loosely
related.
There has always been the hypothetical possibility that someone would
submit, say, the manuscript for Scott Turow's upcoming novel as an I-D,
and the copyright holder would object. I think we have a good story and
legal defenses were that to happen, but throwing LLMs into the mix doesn't
really change anything.
R's,
John
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