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Should Stranger Things have to pay Goonies and Steven King?

>>tiahur+(OP)
If they used copyrighted material or trademarks, they almost certainly _did_ pay the Goonies property rightholders and Stephen King for the privilege. Why would you think they didn't?

>>jprete+P5
The writers were obviously trained on the copyrighted material of Goonies and Steven King, and there has never been any reporting that Netflix has paid those copyright holders. This isn't surprising because copyright violation requires copying.

My understanding is that GPT is a word probability lookup table based on a review of the training material. A statistical analysis of NYT is not copying.

And this doesn't even to look at whether fair use might apply. Since tabulating word frequencies isn't copying, GPT isn't violating anyone's copyright.