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Re:Show HN: Bot accepts every pull request for its own code by anigbrowl on Friday April 10, 2015 @03:01AM (#9352884)
Not at all. Software doesn't qualify for personhood in the same way that animals don't - perhaps you remember that case last year of monkey who took photographs of himself with a wildlife photographer's camera. The photographer tried to claim copyright, which was rejected as he was clearly not the author of the photographs, but since the monkey can't have a copyright interest either the picture is considered to be in the public domain for copyright purposes.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/monkeys-selfie-ca...

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