Tough pill to swallow. Microsoft's actions don't seem fair, but fighting them with copyright could weaken fair use: https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot

Tough pill to swallow. Microsoft's actions don't seem fair, but fighting them with copyright could weaken fair use: https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/ https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin... There's a good argument that demanding copyright protections on scraped datasets and short snippets is a double-edged sword. It could harm search engines, distribution of news, and non-commercial ML research too.