At long last, my article about fair use defenses in disruptive technology cases--from photocopying to generative Ai--is finally out in the UCLA Law Review
https://www.uclalawreview.org/fair-use-defenses-in-disruptive-technology-cases/
https://www.uclalawreview.org/fair-use-defenses-in-disruptive-technology-cases/
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(Apologies for commenting without reading the full 89 pages of your article…)
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Feels like LLM usage is at least a distant cousin of music sampling anyway. Or are they just too distant of concepts in a way I'm not seeing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)#Legal_and_ethical_issues
Comparisons to taping TV shows at home seem a bit ludicrous, to me. The issue is not that people at home are making bad junk. It is that huge corpos are doing the "home taping" & then selling the bootlegs for huge profit