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You're forgetting transformative use. Think about search engines.

• VanTheBrand 4y ago
  Right but a search engine takes in web pages and outputs search. copilot takes in code and outputs code.
• Brian_K_White 4y ago
  Should a search engine be allowed to get around the copyright on a novel by letting me search for and retrieve every sentence individually in small chunks? Also, there is a difference here. A fair use quote from another work is a reference. It's not the thing, it's referring to the thing. When copilot takes a chunk of code from another work to put into yours, it's using the thing directly, or rather, you are by using it. It lacks citation which a quote would have, and instead of being a quote to discuss the other work "Dr Foo once said <remarkable genius insight>" copilot is like you writing a novel and simply copying Dr Foo's remarkable genius insight. The size of the snippet doesn't matter, it's the usage and the lack of citation. Even a cheap-ass totally doable collective citation like getting all the contributors to agree to have their works included, and then having a big list of all contributors somewhwere, and then each user just needs to say "includes code from copilot collective" They don't even have that, which would be good enough.