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The UK government moves forward with a text and data mining exception for all purposes

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Ownership for patent inventions. In this respect, in order to carry out TDM for commercial purposes, which lie beyond the scope of the present UK exception, the consultation sought evidence on the available licensing models. Users reported mixed experiences with licensing. All-purpose TDM. The narrower EU exceptions.

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Are AI models’ weights protected databases?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Of course, it’s possible to argue that there is not an inherent limitation on the kinds of expressions of computer programs (after all, a text in an invented language [but not the language itself ] can still be protected by copyright) and that compiled code is numerical (binary code), rather than textual, also unreadable by humans.