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Google Books is a great parallel to make with Microsoft's Copilot. The key differences between the two is A) Google Books produces verbatim results 100% of the

Google Books is a great parallel to make with Microsoft's Copilot. The key differences between the two is A) Google Books produces verbatim results 100% of the time, while Microsoft's Copilot produces verbatim results some N > 0% of the time (with some % of results greater than N that would be considered a derivative if a human wrote it), and B) Google Books doesn't make the claim that you own the copyright to any greater than 0% of the search results, while Microsoft's Copilot makes the claim that you own the copyright to 100% of the results.

rjzzleep 5y ago
If you copy a quote from Google Books you still have to attribute the original author. It's not magically your text just because it was hosted on Google Books. Why do they even compare these two? You can compare Github itself with Google Books, but not copilot.
- ghaff 5y ago
  >If you copy a quote from Google Books you still have to attribute the original author. Mostly because if you don't do so, that's a plagiarism issue which the law mostly doesn't concern itself with except insofar as an attributed quote, unless the length is truly excessive, is likely to be seen as Fair Use while an unattributed quote, especially if it's more than a minimal snip, is not. (IANAL, etc.)
- Zambyte 5y ago
  > If you copy a quote from Google Books you still have to attribute the original author. It's not magically your text just because it was hosted on Google Books. That's the point I was trying to make, sorry if that wasn't clear. The parallel that I was trying to highlight is that it's not magically your code just because it was hosted on Microsoft Copilot.