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This was a comment made to me in a previous, similar discussion, discussing case law around Google's use of copyrighted books in building a search engine: https
by deathanatos 4y ago
This was a comment made to me in a previous, similar discussion, discussing case law around Google's use of copyrighted books in building a search engine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654478
I'm not sure I completely agree w/ the comment (nor do I think it vindicates CoPilot), but I think it does provide insight into why CoPilot is violating copyright.
- bo1024 4y agoBut fair use, as I understand it, is only about outputs, not inputs. (Licenses can apply to inputs.) A copyright violation occurs when one produces a work that infringes copyright. In this case, Google made digital copies of the books and showed snippets of the books to website visitors. Fair use refers to cases where producing that work is nevertheless legal. The only analogy I can see is that copying the code internally to use in CoPilot training could be a violation of copyright (like how backing up your own MP3s is a violation of copyright?), but the licenses on these public repositories probably already allow that...