Re:GitHub Copilot investigation
by cycomanic on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:08AM
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> The answer to a factual question is not copyrightable, so while you may have moral problems with that, there is no legal argument.
Correct.
>The same applies to all realistic use-cases for copilot by the way. Whatever is produces is not copyrightable.
That's a pretty bold statement to make. How do you know how people use copilot? Also IIRC Oracle vs Google essentially determined 3 lines of code can be copyrightable. So I think you statement fails on two points, you can't really predict how people use copilot and you cannot predict what a court would decide is copyrightable (this is much less straight forward than statement of facts).
Correct.
>The same applies to all realistic use-cases for copilot by the way. Whatever is produces is not copyrightable.
That's a pretty bold statement to make. How do you know how people use copilot? Also IIRC Oracle vs Google essentially determined 3 lines of code can be copyrightable. So I think you statement fails on two points, you can't really predict how people use copilot and you cannot predict what a court would decide is copyrightable (this is much less straight forward than statement of facts).