Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
by emodendroket on Monday July 05, 2021 @01:12PM
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But that is in fact the most fundamental question here. And I’m not fully sold on the idea either that this is going to happen in real-world usage or that a single function in a massive program constitutes a large enough portion to be infringing.
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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
by TeMPOraL on Monday July 05, 2021 @01:29PM
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Quake's square root function wasn't the only, or the largest, example of code Copilot reproduces verbatim. Among others I've seen to date is someone generating a real "About" page with PII information of some random software developer.
How much code is enough to infringe is a tricky question, though. It's not only a function of size, but also of importance/uniqueness - and we know that Copilot doesn't understand these concepts.
Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
by shakna on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:47PM
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> ... or that a single function in a massive program constitutes a large enough portion to be infringing.
As part of the sequences of rulings in Google vs Oracle, the 9-line rangeCheck function, in the entirety of the Android codebase, was found to be infringing.