Elsewhere: “In Japan, copyright infringement will not be enforced on companies that use copyrighted materials to train generative AI models.”

https://insights.manageengine.com/artificial-intelligence/the-us-should-look-at-japans-unique-approach-to-generative-ai-copyright-law/

And: “Unlike the UK and the EU, which allow the ingestion of copyrighted works only for non-commercial purposes, Japan allows it also for commercial use, purposes other than production and apparently including the ingestion of illegally obtained content, such as pirated copyright material.”

https://www.privacyworld.blog/2024/03/japans-new-draft-guidelines-on-ai-and-copyright-is-it-really-ok-to-train-ai-using-pirated-materials/

[errata: an earlier version of this post got submitted citing Oracle; this is why I should not post from a mobile phone at 2am]

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