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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by jillesvangurp on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:24AM (#31848029)
I'm sure the MS lawyers thought long and hard about this and are patiently awaiting any actual lawsuits with confidence in their position. It would be very hard to prove ownership of any snippets. To the point where you can argue that it is just fair use and to the point where companies would think long and hard before committing any resources to fighting MS on this in court at great expense.

I don't think that will happen but it might be interesting if it did.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by amelius on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:42AM (#31848233)
It will stop being fair use when someone makes an AI that creates cartoon characters based on the figures in Disney movies.
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by vlovich123 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:30AM (#31848098)
MS is unlikely to be sued here because the infringement claim wold be against their users and my guess is the license indemnifies them against you suing them for defects in the tool you use (ie use at your own risk and if you get sued you agree you won’t sue us).
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by kop316 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:38AM (#31848176)
> It would be very hard to prove ownership of any snippets. To the point where you can argue that it is just fair use and to the point where companies would think long and hard before committing any resources to fighting MS on this in court at great expense.

I would like to point you to this: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309 HN Comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by aaaaaaaaata on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:34AM (#31848135)
> companies would think long and hard before committing any resources to fighting MS...at great expense

This is the end of Microsoft's actual calculation.

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