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They might, but legal contracts are considered, well, legally binding. A lot of software has free/low cost educational editions, protected by access .edu address and a licensing agreement, and that's considered enough to protect copyright on that work. Whether ML models are covered by trade secret and not copyright, and whether that extends to trade secret coverage remains to be seen.


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