Re:GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It
by alok-g on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:45AM
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Copyrights protect expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. The ideas themselves could be a subject matter of patents. This addresses a few of your comments.
>> It would be nearly impossible to trace the original code or make a copyright claim.
The difficulty in proving infringement is a different aspect than an infringement happening.
>> I always thought the idea of open source was to use copyright against itself because we believed in openness.
That's exactly the point. The open concern being discussed with using Copilot is that one may incorporate parts of the code under the "openness" license into an application which is not under a compatible "openness" license.
>> It would be nearly impossible to trace the original code or make a copyright claim.
The difficulty in proving infringement is a different aspect than an infringement happening.
>> I always thought the idea of open source was to use copyright against itself because we believed in openness.
That's exactly the point. The open concern being discussed with using Copilot is that one may incorporate parts of the code under the "openness" license into an application which is not under a compatible "openness" license.