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Re:New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as c... by 8note on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:45PM (#37166956)
Stack overflow content is certainly copyrighted, but the copyright is owned by the questioners and answerers, not stack overflow.

There's no damage to the potential market or value of the works because they're given away for free by their owners.

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Re:New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as c... by lewhoo on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:16PM (#37167333)
There's no damage to the potential market or value of the works because they're given away for free by their owners.

There may be, because technically copy/pasting SO code is governed by CC BY-SA 4.0 license which requires attribution and things aren't so obvious especially for commercial purpose.

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