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As just a simple thought exercise, imagine if you wrote a fictional book that takes place on the moon, and you took a whopping entire paragraph out of one of JK
by throwaway675309 4y ago
As just a simple thought exercise, imagine if you wrote a fictional book that takes place on the moon, and you took a whopping entire paragraph out of one of JK Rowlings harry potter books, now imagine that you changed a few of the adjectives or pronouns and pasted it in.
I mean yeah legally there might be some level of copyright infringement here but that little fragment constitutes less than one percent of Rawlings work, and your entire book doesn't even follow the same plot as the Harry Potter book. Nobody gives a crap.
I also feel like there's a bit of a double standard, how many people knowingly lift things wholesale from Stack overflow without requiring and including the required attribution? How many times have you found a snippet of code online and implemented it in your code base without determining whether you need to provide attribution?
People are getting all worked up over basically nothing, in more than 90% of use cases for copilot you just wanted to fill out a basic boiler plate level function, and it does so beautifully.