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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by phkahler on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:21PM (#27848181)
Yeah, I don't think bettering their products includes verbatim incorporation of code into those products.

Also, for the part about small snippets being non copyrightable. I would suggest looking at the Google/Oracle case. Google was found guilty of infringement for a very small number of lines, but the award to Oracle was IIRC rather a joke (something like one dollar, indicating it was infringing but largely irrelevant).

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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by zja on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:32PM (#27848316)
The Supreme Court found Google’s use to be fair, not infringement.
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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by jcelerier on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:43PM (#27848466)
the supreme court did not reconsider the previous judgment on the 9 lines of sorting algorithm being copied, which was not considered fair use
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Re:Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot by zja on Friday July 16, 2021 @01:30PM (#27858770)
Didn’t know that, thanks!
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