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> since they’re providing a way of consciously allowing probable copyright infringement I think the claim that it's "probable copyright infringement" is nowher
by FireBeyond 4y ago
> since they’re providing a way of consciously allowing probable copyright infringement
I think the claim that it's "probable copyright infringement" is nowhere near proven.
GitHub likely gave that option to satisfy user's lawyers who might have a higher threshold for "clean room" implementations or "no open source". Not as any kind of implication of copyright infringement.
Fair use works as an argument to the usability of Copilot.
Derivative works, per US Copyright law, are not infringement, either.
- chrismorgan 4y agoI’m talking in the context of verbatim reproduction, which “suggestions matching public code” sounds an awful lot like. At that point, I think “probable copyright infringement” is a fair description.
- FireBeyond 4y agoYour work as a whole may be innovative. is 'if err != nil {' your original work? Or is it 'commonly accepted knowledge' as a Go programmer?