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It’s interesting and pretty much uncharted territory from a legal perspective, that’s for sure. It very much relates back to the discussion about accountability
by stingraycharles 4y ago
It’s interesting and pretty much uncharted territory from a legal perspective, that’s for sure. It very much relates back to the discussion about accountability of machine learning models, in that it’s desirable to be able to explain how/why some output was generated.
I don’t think a banner would be sufficient here, though; perhaps some references to the inputs that were used to generate the output, but that’s often very difficult to pinpoint.
Whatever happens, if this ends up setting some sort of legal precedent it will have a big impact on the industry, and I personally hope it leads to more accountability and transparency of the models, rather than the black boxes they are now.
- mgraczyk 4y agoHow could a banner not be sufficient? Under what legal theory is Copilot + banner illegal, but code search is legal?
- stingraycharles 4y agoI’d argue that copilot’s core functionality is distributing code, which is very different from search (pointing to original code). Very different from a copyright / fair use perspective.