So many issues with that, the copyright office doesn’t police access, which involves consuming, the copyright office polices distributing.
So then for them to determine fair use, they need the department of justice involved to say the access was illegal? since when. just to highlight the absurdity. “Illegal” meaning a terms of service violation despite the fact that everyone using the service can consume copyrighted works? This circles back to the now paradoxical issue about it not being copyright infringement to consume, but requires policing the terms of service by the copyright office which is impossible.
This is too paradoxical to even entertain, but thats why the office led with “current law”, because it is completely unaccommodating to a real social problem. A lot of artists and people are uncomfortable with the current law, and generative AI. New law could patch this except:
Artists don't actually like the generative AI that isn't trained on copyrighted works either.
The laws are going to change too slow and there are already models that fulfill the high bar that detractors started with.
New works that were specifically licensed for use in AI training and compensated.
The outcome is still the same. More people can express themselves. People with years of discipline are no longer needed.
By the time any law could actually address noncompliant models - to this new imagined standard - compliant models will already have obsoleted the same trade.
So then for them to determine fair use, they need the department of justice involved to say the access was illegal? since when. just to highlight the absurdity. “Illegal” meaning a terms of service violation despite the fact that everyone using the service can consume copyrighted works? This circles back to the now paradoxical issue about it not being copyright infringement to consume, but requires policing the terms of service by the copyright office which is impossible.
This is too paradoxical to even entertain, but thats why the office led with “current law”, because it is completely unaccommodating to a real social problem. A lot of artists and people are uncomfortable with the current law, and generative AI. New law could patch this except:
Artists don't actually like the generative AI that isn't trained on copyrighted works either.
The laws are going to change too slow and there are already models that fulfill the high bar that detractors started with.
New works that were specifically licensed for use in AI training and compensated.
The outcome is still the same. More people can express themselves. People with years of discipline are no longer needed.
By the time any law could actually address noncompliant models - to this new imagined standard - compliant models will already have obsoleted the same trade.