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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by hollerith on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:09PM (#37423133)
>How many people here actually abide by the StackOverflow contribution license of CC-BY-SA when copying and pasting code from there?

I always thought that code snippets that small are not considered by the Courts to be eligible for 'copyright protection'.

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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by organsnyder on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:36PM (#37423550)
I always include a comment with the SO URL (though I haven't copied any code from SO in quite some time—it's not nearly as useful as it used to be).
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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by gjsman-1000 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:10PM (#37423148)
In that case, is Copilot regurgitating 25 or so lines of GPL code, less than 1% of the time, eligible for copyright protection?
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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by CameronNemo on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:20PM (#37423318)
Why do you think it would only be 25 lines?
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Re:Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks... by gjsman-1000 on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:24PM (#37423366)
Because that is about, so far, the longest piece of clearly, demonstrably unique code that has ever been shown to have been copied. The longest you’d ever be able to clearly convince a court with, at least.

https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581461734665367554/pho...

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