> If I've "learned" Harry Potter to the level where I can reproduce it verbatim, the reproduction would be a copyright violation
Of course not: in fact, memorizing has always been a right. (Edit: that would depend on what is meant with "reproduction" though. As written elsewhere, properly done quoting is of course fair use.)
> If I can paraphrase it, ditto
Even more so: people have lost legal actions because they sued authors of parodies.
Afterthought: I realize my reading of the original post should have been more attentive;
nonetheless, I would still object that the ideas proposed (e.g. "reproduction" and "paraphrasing") cannot be taken without further specification. The fault is not at that generic level. And the context we should be after should not be this provisional one, of an unfinished technology.
Of course not: in fact, memorizing has always been a right. (Edit: that would depend on what is meant with "reproduction" though. As written elsewhere, properly done quoting is of course fair use.)
> If I can paraphrase it, ditto
Even more so: people have lost legal actions because they sued authors of parodies.