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immibis
on July 8, 2025
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Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downl...
They charge you by the amount of music you get from them. That's selling music. Selling a tool would be if they charge you once, you download the tool, and you can use it on your computer to generate as much music as you want to pay electricity for.
conradev
on July 8, 2025
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I
can’t buy the music
you
generate using Suno, though, unless you take action to list it somewhere for sale.
immibis
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You also can't buy a massage I receive. Does that mean I was sold access to a massage generation tool instead of a massage?
conradev
on July 8, 2025
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Yes! You were sold a service and not a good, and you cannot copyright the act of the massage itself.
freejazz
on July 8, 2025
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That's because a massage is not a copyrightable expression (dance is), not because it's sold as a service.
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