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cajmorgans t1_j8416i1 wrote

Even if it will become illegal, the democracy of Machine Learning depends on it being legal. If Getty wins this, it would mean that a few pretty large companies would be the only ones that can build large models because they “own” most of the data. Facebook for example does a lot of stuff to prevent people scrape public data from their apps.

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Ulfgardleo t1_j84fokp wrote

legally the data is not public and the fact that facebook is actively trying to prevent scraping is making it very difficult to argue otherwise.

Legally, the data cnanot be public. The users give facebook a non-exclusive license with limited rights to store and process the data. From this does not follow the right that anyone who sees the shared images (for example) has a right to process them as well. If that wasthe case, the terms (https://www.facebook.com/terms.php 3.1) would have to state under which license the works are redistributed by facebook.

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