Ideas? No. Expressions? Yes. Github Copilot arguably copies protectable expressions. Microsoft is banking on the fact that nobody will sue them over it because

Ideas? No. Expressions? Yes. Github Copilot arguably copies protectable expressions. Microsoft is banking on the fact that nobody will sue them over it because it involves projects that cannot defend themselves, and because they will endlessly argue over where the line between ideas and protectable expressions is. TL;DR Microsoft is being Microsoft again. Also water is wet.