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title: "Brett Cashman > I'm in favor of establishing private causes of action..."
date: 2024-01-18
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# Brett Cashman > I'm in favor of establishing private causes of action...

*January 18, 2024 — Comment Archer T. Ships replied to Dave Hitt's comment.*

Brett Cashman > I'm in favor of establishing private causes of action against GenAI users and firms found to have trained models on copyrighted works Do it.  It will be nice to establish legal precedent that _learning_ from copyrighted works is not the same thing as _copying_ copyrighted works.