LML4801 Assignment 1 Semester 1 Memo | Due 3 April 2025

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LML4801 Assignment 1 Semester 1 | Due 3 April 2025. THREE DIFFERENT ANSWERS PROVIDED. Scenario M is a tech-savvy fourth year law student at a residential South African university. She created a computer program (Artificial Intelligence (AI)) called CheatSheet ostensibly to help students with their assignments, which she charges a once-off subscription fee to use. CheatSheet is trained on the following documents, without M having obtained any permission for such use: electronic licensed copies of textbooks that M accessed through the university library’s website; published versions of court judgments from a law publisher’s database, including the editors’ summaries at the beginning of each case; study notes begged, borrowed, and bought from classmates; and lecturers’ notes uploaded onto their universities’ module sites. M is confident that, because CheatSheet is for educational use, she cannot be liable for copyright infringement. She also acknowledges all the authors of material that CheatSheet is trained on as her “Database co-authors”. Further, M has become aware that Z had copied CheatSheet and is making it available free of charge, which interferes with the income M is getting from CheatSheet. 1. Can M prevent Z’s actions in relation to CheatSheet?