"Patented and secret tricks" are not protected by copyright, if the output was an actual reimplementation of an idea instead of Copilot regurgitating existing c

"Patented and secret tricks" are not protected by copyright, if the output was an actual reimplementation of an idea instead of Copilot regurgitating existing code (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287). The specific implementations are protected by copyright, and the ideas may be protected by patents. In the case of "secret" tricks, they may be protected by trade secret laws, but not if it's in a public GitHub repo.