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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9696986" data-attributes="member: 177">Yeah, that's not gonna fly, because such enforcement is intractable, and also bad for the end users.  We are approaching the point that every household in America can ask a generative AI to create an all-new Kung Fu Panda movie each night.  Enforcement would require tracking that use by the end-user - which you'd probably call an invasion of your privacy!  Moreover, it would entail suing each individual user for copyright infringement, which the courts simply couldn't support in terms of sheer volume.So, you sue the company that makes the machine that enables that use instead.In an outright legal sense, it is not clear, as it hasn't been put into legislation, nor fully put through the courts yet.  It probably won't really be clear for years.Until then, folks get to have their opinions.  Does the phrase, "aiding and abetting" mean anything to you?Interesting that you bring up Xerox.  Xerox machines came to market in 1959.  Were you aware that starting almost immediately after their introduction, they were challenged in a slew of lawsuits for copyright infringement?  Most importantly by academic publishers - making Xerox copies of journal articles was cutting into their profits.The lawsuits kept coming until the Copyright Act of 1976.  That law doesn't have a carve-out for copy machines.  It redefined Fair Use, making clear that making some types of copies for academic use was Fair Use, and the lawsuits stopped.   Again, it isn't that there's protection for copy technology in the law - fair use is defined such that typical office photocopiers are not usually an economical way to violate copyright on a scale large enough to matter.  If Xerox decided to make a copier designed instead to economically copy and bind academic textbooks so that students could buy them cheap from their schools, and publisher revenue dropped, you'd see Xerox in the crosshairs.</blockquote>

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