My guess is that is is fair use but... The model is said to spit out code verbatim 0.1% of the time, a low number, but if copilot is used a lot, it means you a

My guess is that is is fair use but... The model is said to spit out code verbatim 0.1% of the time, a low number, but if copilot is used a lot, it means you are going to find a lot of copied code in people's projects, and these project owners may be breaching copyright. I don't think "but, copilot..." will be an excuse. Here is a (probably unrealistic) scenario illustrating it. I am playing a copyright troll here: - Release plenty of generic code and put it on GitHub under a restrictive license - Have the copilot bot scan it - wait some time - scan public codebases and do an exact match for my code - sue project owner that contain my code I see the use of copilot more of a minefield for me than as a liability for Microsoft.