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The copyright ownership of model weights remains in a legal vacuum globally, with no authoritative ruling yet on whether model weights themselves constitute protectable creative expression.
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7/24/2026
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CivitAI抢先体验争议：开源精神与商业化边界在哪里？
redditr/StableDiffusion7/11/2026
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