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Re:Papers on GitHub Copilot, copyright law, and ownership fo... by saurik on Saturday June 25, 2022 @11:06AM (#31875872)
I think what is really going to be interesting is when someone finally does this trick for music, as the RIAA is 100% going to sue whomever pulls off "give me a song about my ex girlfriend that sounds like Taylor Swift singing a hypothetical cover of a song in the style of one from Bob Dylan" and we will finally have a real test of all of these laws (...likely followed by a ton of frantic edits driven by their interests). In contrast, photographers and artists have always been in relatively weak positions and the only software developers having issues right now are almost by definition of the task going to be from the open source ecosystem, and so what comes out of these discussions is mostly just a lot of frustration rather than a true throwing down of the gauntlet, an activity for which the RIAA is always ready.
Re:Papers on GitHub Copilot, copyright law, and ownership fo... by Dracophoenix on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:39PM (#31877617)
> I think what is really going to be interesting in when someone finally does this trick for music

Already done, although I don't think an actual lawsuit has been filed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sfXn_ecH5Rw

Re:Papers on GitHub Copilot, copyright law, and ownership fo... by saurik on Sunday June 26, 2022 @05:48AM (#31882461)
(In case anyone else sees this and thinks this is useful without clicking the link, it isn't: this is one of those stupid "I generated every possible X and so obviously copyright has failed" pranks.)