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> The output of copilot is macnine-generated and is not subject to copyright. Microsoft cannot claim copyright on what it generates. That does not affect my rig
by epicide 5y ago
> The output of copilot is macnine-generated and is not subject to copyright. Microsoft cannot claim copyright on what it generates. That does not affect my rights, or anyone else's.
What about when I, a developer working on a proprietary codebase, blindly commit the output code into our product? Have I created a derivative work or, worse, plagiarized?
- user5994461 5y ago>>> Have I created a derivative work or, worse, plagiarized? If you reproduced code that's copyrightable and under another license, then yes you are in violation. It will take a decade for the case to proceed to court and determine exactly what claims can be made against your company and GitHub. In practical terms, you should turn off Copilot this very minute.
- epicide 5y agoRight, which is why it feels like a bad-faith argument in this case to say "a machine can't produce copyrightable code, etc." We aren't talking about a server sitting in a Microsoft data center shuffling code to another server without human intervention. We are talking about a tool that helps developers create code -- code that is "copyrightable and under another license", and thus in violation.