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They can’t have cared that much – they didn’t even bother to write about it themselves. And, what Google did seems to be legal (if not polite), at least in many jurisdictions: AI-generated code isn’t generally considered copyrightable.
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at least in many jurisdictions: AI-generated code isn’t generally considered copyrightable.
Can you back that up, especially the “many jurisdictions” part?
I know about the US copyright office decision that work purely created by AI can’t be copyrighted, are you aware of more complete decisions than that one?
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How does this document back up what you are claiming? The whitepaper is clear: AI-generated or AI-assisted works are generally considered copyrightable (by humans) as long as they cross a certain threshold of human involvement.
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Yes. And this code seems to have an uncertain threshold; it’s not exactly obvious that this is copyrightable. You’d need a court case to figure out where the transition point is.
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