In their submission to the U.K. government Creative Commons consider AI as a special case of text and data mining (TDM) and argues, "A TDM exception is consistent with copyright's purpose and function... people observe the ideas, styles, genres, and other tropes of past creativity, and use what they learn to create anew." They should have stopped there. Instead they say "we are also supportive of preference signals that help people state how they wish for their works to be used" and suggest that "they could be part of a legally binding 'rights reservation' or 'opt-out' scheme," raising the question of why Creative Commons would now be arguing in favour of extending copyright. They should be arguing in favour of open-source AI including open data, not coming up with new ways to close access and promote commercial AI. Thanks to Michael Bommarito for giving this document - found only on LinkedIn - a web-based home.
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