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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by zerocrates on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:03PM (#31853731)
Yes, the copyright clause gives as its purpose "the progress of Science," but that doesn't mean that anything which claims to be "progress" gets a free pass.
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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by ajb on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:09PM (#31853812)
Indeed, the US supreme court pointedly refused to accept that the purpose clause limits the power of copyright in "Eldred Vs Reno" (at least, that is my understanding as a non lawyer)
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