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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by feanaro on Monday April 03, 2023 @04:49AM (#35420442)
The copyright infringement comes about later, when that mass of numbers is used to produce a topically related work. The same rules apply for humans -- see the concept of "clean room implementation".
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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by ratherbefuddled on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:12PM (#35427549)
It really doesn't. Prose isn't source code. Learning something, then later writing something else isn't copying.
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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by ethbr0 on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:03PM (#35429548)
My limited understanding of case law is that transformative use is still judged very human-centricly.

E.g. the courts take a dim view of any attempt to create a machine (in the abstract sense) that takes in copywritten works and churns out similar-but-uncopywritten works

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