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Legal limitations and justifications in the training and deployment of generative AI models under copyright law Cover

Legal limitations and justifications in the training and deployment of generative AI models under copyright law

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|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2025-0035 | Journal eISSN: 2674-4619 | Journal ISSN: 2674-4600
Language: English
Page range: 162 - 179
Published on: Dec 12, 2025
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