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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by an1sotropy on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:54PM (#33460843)
Well, Linux might not exist, at least not in its current nature form, enabled by a “share and share alike” license that has meant that companies contribute to it instead of copying and closing it off from others.

More generally, what is left to protect any creative work besides guarding physical access? Why would any company make any movie or tv show if it could be copied and redistributed by others endlessly the moment it gets shown once?

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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by account42 on Friday November 04, 2022 @06:25AM (#33464314)
That's assuming the only way to fund the creation of something is to sell copies after the fact. And assuming that people only create for monetary compensation.

There have been creative endeavous before copyright and there would be creative endeavours after copyright. Perhaps even more since people are free to remix and share without restrictions.

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