> Copyright law has only ever applied to intellectual creations – where there is no creator, there is no work This is, at best, an oversimplification. Code com

> Copyright law has only ever applied to intellectual creations – where there is no creator, there is no work This is, at best, an oversimplification. Code compiled from copyrighted source code is derived work inheriting that copyright according to long-established law. This is exactly why the legal issues around machine learning applied to copyrighted corpora have been contentious.