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I am not a lawyer, but my legal intuition / common sense says that “code snippets” are not copyrightable. There’s some sliding scale on when a code snippet woul
by goerz 4y ago
I am not a lawyer, but my legal intuition / common sense says that “code snippets” are not copyrightable. There’s some sliding scale on when a code snippet would become so non-trivial that a reasonable (!) judge would consider it copyrightable, but nothing Copilot does is anywhere close to that limit, IMO.
- shakna 4y agoOne of the main claims in Google LLC v. Oracle America [0], was based around a 9-line rangeCheck function. Whilst some code can be too simple and small to copyright, programmers and lawyers are probably not going to view snippets the same way. Copilot creates risk. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_Inc.#First_phase:_API_copyrightability_and_patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_...