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> If I trained a LLM on leaked MS sources and built an OS or Office suite. Would MS be ok with that? Why not? If your implementation is serving back literal c
by berkes 3y ago
> If I trained a LLM on leaked MS sources and built an OS or Office suite. Would MS be ok with that?
Why not?
If your implementation is serving back literal chunks of code, I'd presume not, and they can easily use copyright laws to punish you.
If your implementation uses that as "inspiration", It's hardly different from you reading that code and learning from it. Obviously, it's almost impossible to read the code, learn from it, and be 100% sure you'll never reproduce any of their code. Hence "clean room" teams and such.
- themaninthedark 3y agoI think they would have a hard time using copyright: >Section 102 of the U.S Copyright Act sets forth what is and what is not subject to copyright protection.[3] The first part of the statute states the eight types of works which are subject to copyright protection such as; literary works, musical works, dramatic works, pantomimes and choreographic works, pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works, audiovisual works, sound recordings; and architectural works.[4] The second part of the statute states that copyright protection does not “extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery…”[5] https://easlerlaw.com/software-computer-code-copyrighted https://easlerlaw.com/software-computer-code-copyrighted Which is why we have software patents in the first place.