Setting aside the question of who holds it, is it an inconsistent position? If a broadening of fair use is necessary for developing large language models, it's perfectly consistent to argue it should also extend to artists/archivists/derivative works in general, otherwise you're staking out the position that pirating one book is wrong but downloading Books3 is fine
Wow From the article wrote a script to remove copyright info, including the word “copyright” and “acknowledgments,” from ebooks in LibGen.
suggests that Meta strips [copyright information] ......
.....it torrented LibGen,
Just like every other major model out there.
Incoming: Another round of "OMG that's so illegal" from the same people that say copyright shouldn't exist.
Setting aside the question of who holds it, is it an inconsistent position? If a broadening of fair use is necessary for developing large language models, it's perfectly consistent to argue it should also extend to artists/archivists/derivative works in general, otherwise you're staking out the position that pirating one book is wrong but downloading Books3 is fine
It's all so tiresome.