GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright

Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by mjburgess on Monday July 05, 2021 @08:21AM (#27737205)

You wouldn't be allowed to make derivative works of those books; i.e. copy/paste into your own work.

Google isnt making new books, or enabling people to make derivative copies; it is merely previewing a book.

Github search is a preview. Copilot is a copy/paste.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by duckmysick on Monday July 05, 2021 @12:32PM (#27739606)

What about Google Books Ngram Viewer? Isn't that a derivative work based on copyrighted content? It's more than just a search or preview - it contains both novel information and snippets of existing content. Is linguistic corpus a special case?

https://books.google.com/ngrams

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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by pessimizer on Monday July 05, 2021 @04:10PM (#27741422)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

The research value actually turned activity that would be infringing into activity that was not infringing. Take away things like the ngram viewer and Google Books infringes.

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