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But it might well give you the exact same code with a variable name changed (for example), which would be unlikely to hold up in court if a human had done it to

• pelasaco 3y ago
  you are assuming some imaginative scenario. "Hold up" in court. It will never happen. Just check how many ways you have to write a method to check if a number is odd or not. If you are using a application using a framework, pretty sure all codes looks similar. Look a ruby on rails application for example. Quite often, the user model, session controller and in some level, all controllers if they are following the "rails way" they look very similar.
• williamcotton 3y ago
  It depends on the code. You can’t copyright something functional like a for-loop. What you can copyright is the larger expressive, and arbitrary, structure of that code. Copyright is not meant for utilitarian purposes. For that there are patents. The non-utilitarian, artistically expressive aspect of software is in how code is organized. You know, the rather arbitrary decisions that spawn hours of bike-shedding. Copilot is most useful when it makes no creative decisions and instead follows the style and design patterns already established in the code base.