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Mostly music infringement. Calculate total number of six note sequences in music? Some will occur more often than others due to how musicworks? MPAA is there; “Coalition of Creators and Copyright Owners,” represented by songwriter (ASCAP, music, dramatists, BMI, SESAC, VLA, Writers Guild); National Music Publishers.
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If so, infringement may occur unless an exception applies or the LLM did not have access to the original work. 1 Another key right is the creation of derivativeworks, which includes adaptations or translations. 7 This does not, however, fully answer hard questions about the right to prepare derivativeworks under US law.
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Since then, large models generating not just text and image but also video, games, music and code, have become a global obsession, touted as set to revolutionise innovation and democratise creativity, against a background of media frenzy.
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