GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright

Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by b3morales on Monday July 05, 2021 @06:32PM (#27742427)

> I'm trying to argue that copyright is relevant to Copilot's input if not allowed by an OSS license.

And I tend to agree with you (and the other commenter) here. But GitHub doesn't.

> has Github made any legal claims so far?

I'm not sure how actively, but the CEO was here in the announcement thread the other day saying that they think the ingestion of the inputs is a "fair use". They also have some material defending the output side: https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio...

> Is Github only using code/repos that are explicitly under OSS licenses?

I don't think we know exactly what code they used as inputs, no.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by ghoward on Monday July 05, 2021 @09:01PM (#27743307)

Their argument defending the output side doesn't hold water, IMO. If Copilot produces exact copies verbatim, even some of the time, then as long as customers don't have access to the code used to generate the model, how can they be sure?

It's a matter of scale. With a big enough codebase, there will be copyright violations.

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