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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by breakfastduck on Monday July 05, 2021 @12:47PM (#27739744)
How long does it have to be for you to consider it copyrighted code?

For example, a book could be copyrighted, but they certainly cannot sue me because a book i wrote contains a sentence that is the same.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by ghoward on Monday July 05, 2021 @01:54PM (#27740292)
The answer to your first question is for the courts to decide, unfortunately.

However, for my purposes, using a new license with particular terms would only be to make companies like GitHub pause and think before using my code as "training" to an "algorithm" like Copilot.

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