Items tagged with Fair use
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Chris Harper - Fri, Sep 18, 2026
The most vocal critics of generative AI view the technology as overt labor theft, due to how the underlying web scraping and AI training works, and internal documents from Microsoft and OpenAI revealed by The New York Times v. Microsoft...
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Joel Hruska - Wed, Aug 03, 2011
Britain's business secretary, Vince Cable, announced today that the government plans to pass legislation allowing citizens to make legal copies of CDs and DVDs they own. The new law will also allow UK citizens to engage in "form shifting;" the term refers to the right to burn legally...
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Michael Santo - Sat, Dec 29, 2007
Ripping CDs that you own for your personal use should be OK, right? Not according to the RIAA.Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one step further: In legal documents...
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