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Re:GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copy... by SAI_Peregrinus on Sunday October 16, 2022 @10:00PM (#33229113)
SCO v. IBM[1] included claims of sections as small as "…ranging from five to ten to fifteen lines of code in multiple places that are of issue…" in some of the individual claims of the case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internation....

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Re:GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copy... by dataflow on Sunday October 16, 2022 @10:04PM (#33229141)
The "..." part you redacted out explicitly said "it is many different sections of code". It was (quite obviously) not one or two 5-line blocks of code, let alone "simple" ones like FizzBuzz.
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Re:GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copy... by AmericanChopper on Monday October 17, 2022 @12:57AM (#33229948)
So your claim is that the code in the OP tweet is actually not copyrightable, and it would only become a copyright violation if you also copied many additional code blocks from the same copyrighted work?
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