Yep this is a good read on the situation, I don't even think overturning it is the only way to get around it, what if I retrain the last layer and copyright the resulting weights?
That wouldn't do anything. You can copyright the weights but not the model outputs, if this stands. Incidentally, I have no idea if slightly perturbing the weights of a model that falls under a certain license would then allow you to completely escape that license, my guess is that if the overall result is fairly similar the answer would be no.
Also, I do feel that this whole thing is a bit moot. If the author just claimed that they created the art they would probably be granted copyright protection.
Yep this is a good read on the situation, I don't even think overturning it is the only way to get around it, what if I retrain the last layer and copyright the resulting weights?
That wouldn't do anything. You can copyright the weights but not the model outputs, if this stands. Incidentally, I have no idea if slightly perturbing the weights of a model that falls under a certain license would then allow you to completely escape that license, my guess is that if the overall result is fairly similar the answer would be no.
Also, I do feel that this whole thing is a bit moot. If the author just claimed that they created the art they would probably be granted copyright protection.