2023-12-31
@ylecun Under U.S. law, facilitation of infringement is actionable. That is distinct from infringement. If a person uses a tool to make an infringing work, the person is the infringer. If someone then publishes that work, that is a further infringement by the publisher. In most cases in the U.S., a platform is not regarded as a publisher. I used to be head of legal operations at Facebook (where you are now — as Meta) and would be happy to chat about this stuff sometime!
Marcus on AI
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users
including movie, TV, and computer game scenes and characters. Reductio ad absurdam: trademark-infringing output from a two word prompt ("animated toys"): https://garymarcus.substa...
2023-12-30
@ylecun Under U.S. law, facilitation of infringement is actionable. That is distinct from infringement. If a person uses a tool to make an infringing work, the person is the infringer. If someone then publishes that work, that is a further infringement by the publisher. In most cases in the U.S., a platform is not regarded as a publisher. I used to be head of legal operations at Facebook (where you are now — as Meta) and would be happy to chat about this stuff sometime!
Marcus on AI
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users
A full of spectrum of infringement — At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke … Threads: @carnage4life and @thebrianpenny Mastodon: @cstross@...