, LML4801 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 1 2025 - DUE 3 April 2025
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?
Legal Analysis of M’s Rights Against Z’s Actions
M, a fourth-year law student, has developed an AI
program called CheatSheet that assists students with
Semester 1 2025 - DUE 3 April 2025
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?
Legal Analysis of M’s Rights Against Z’s Actions
M, a fourth-year law student, has developed an AI
program called CheatSheet that assists students with
