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Microsoft is not the author of the software that copilot helps produce. the person sitting at the keyboard using copilot is the author.
by naikrovek 4y ago
Microsoft is not the author of the software that copilot helps produce. the person sitting at the keyboard using copilot is the author.
- pabs3 4y agoHow is copilot not the author?
- natefinch 4y agoCopilot is software, it can't be the author, just like the OS isn't the author when you copy and paste. Authors have to be humans.
- pabs3 4y agoCopy and paste doesn't really write code, just copies it from one place to another. Copilot on the other hand does generate new potentially novel code.
- bilekas 4y agoThis is a bit like saying if you hire a freelancer to do some work then you're the author of that work. I'm not too sure i agree with that.
- gerikson 4y agohttps://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/work_for_hire https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/work_for_hire
- bilekas 4y agoKind of interesting.. I would like to point out this seems to be specific for the US. But also.. In that case, when I commission an artist to paint my portrait, surely I can't claim to be the artist.. But I'm no lawyer. I'm not sure there is a contractual agreement in GitHub's co-pilot that says: "Any code you write here is commissioned work". But honestly I didn't read the T&C's. So I think you MAY have debunked my analogy, but not the main reason for the analogy.