> Typically I can't take a personal "tier" of a product and charge 3rd parties for derivatives of it. Say like VS Code.
Can't you, though? I'd thought in general, it's a very important for the market to be able to do just that, otherwise everything gets gummed up in webs of exclusive contractual dependencies between established companies.
As I say, I don't really know. But then, this is exactly how SaaS licensing works. There may even be a free personal tier, where you can't sell products based on it, and a professional tier which may be very expensive indeed.
Typically providers of online databases go to some effort to stop people from sharing logins. Even from that point or view, I can imagine scraping articles and providing paraphrases of it for a fee is fishy.
All I'm saying, to some people it's obvious that the whole LLM on scraped Internet is fair use, to me it is not obvious.
Can't you, though? I'd thought in general, it's a very important for the market to be able to do just that, otherwise everything gets gummed up in webs of exclusive contractual dependencies between established companies.