While I know I am right about the current interpretation of how copyright applies to software I am also of the opinion that this is also how things aught to be.

I have yet to hear a persuasive argument otherwise.

Is it because I both write and publish open source code and write and publish music that I am able to clearly delineate idea from expression?

For one, I have never been satisfied with the non-utilitarian aspects of Copilot’s output. When I am writing software the real art has always been in how code is organized. I gain absolutely no aesthetic value from autocompleting unit tests or boilerplate.

You may think that the outputs of Copilot and Stable Diffusion are artistic in nature but all I see is a rhyming dictionary.

I look at attempts to have copyright cover the utilitarian aspect of software as an attempt to claim ownership over chord progressions, scales or time signatures.