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bonoboTP parent
Transformed summaries are generally fair use already (or perhaps not even an issue of copyright). You can read plot summaries of novels and movies on Wikipedia, same with technical topics. The ideas are not protected by copyright, the artistic expression is. Certain technical ideas can be protected via patents. But even then, not the description of idea, but putting it into practice. Ideas that you're not supposed to re-summarize in your own words at all are things like trade secrets or classified information.

cmiles74
Are you sure? Or are owners deciding not to sue because they are seeing some benefit?

I believe copyright is always case-by-case. No one sues over plot summaries because they likely help sales. Summarize books or news articles with an LLM and you end up with the lawsuits we see today.

ethbr1
The specific difference is summarizing automatically, at scale, which is a novel technological possibility.

The previous balance of rights was created when summarizing took human time and proceeded at human pace.

Now, that's different and a new balance needs to be struck.

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