Yes, there are other courts than the US ones, and generally the law there is significantly more favourable to TDM with regards to copyright, with the exception of the PRC.
Examples:
Japan: Article 30-4 of the Japanese Copyright Act. No special action on the part of companies is necessary for compliance. All models are legal so long as their output is legal.
The UK: s.29A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA). Models must be trained by non-profit research institutes, and can then be used by anyone (including for profit entities); similar to the Stable Diffusion model.
The EU: Articles 3 & 4 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). There are no restrictions on non-profit TDM, same as the UK. For-profit TDM is exempted from copyright so long as the data harvesting process respects an "opt-out" process, where specific contractual forms/disclosures of opting out of inclusion in the training data are respected.
Singapore: Articles 243 & 244 of the Copyright Act. No special action on the part of companies is necessary for compliance. All models are legal so long as their output is legal.
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There are more courts than just the US ones.
Yes, there are other courts than the US ones, and generally the law there is significantly more favourable to TDM with regards to copyright, with the exception of the PRC.
Examples:
Japan: Article 30-4 of the Japanese Copyright Act. No special action on the part of companies is necessary for compliance. All models are legal so long as their output is legal.
The UK: s.29A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA). Models must be trained by non-profit research institutes, and can then be used by anyone (including for profit entities); similar to the Stable Diffusion model.
The EU: Articles 3 & 4 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM). There are no restrictions on non-profit TDM, same as the UK. For-profit TDM is exempted from copyright so long as the data harvesting process respects an "opt-out" process, where specific contractual forms/disclosures of opting out of inclusion in the training data are respected.
Singapore: Articles 243 & 244 of the Copyright Act. No special action on the part of companies is necessary for compliance. All models are legal so long as their output is legal.