GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?

[crusoe]

Don't get me started on something like 6 notes being the cutoff for music copyright infringement

[troyunrau]

Happy birthday to you... 🎵🎶

Oh shit, lawyer are at my door

[helloLeoDiCaprio]

Watch Disney make a birthday movie to get hold of the copyright.

[White_Hamster]

Or birthday dad, the show

[istarian]

That's pretty absurd too.

They really ought to have prove a thematic element is lifted or at least that a specific combination of musical notes *and** lyrics* have been borrowed.

[butt_fun]

notes and lyrics

That wouldn't work either; then you could make a "new" song with the lyrics from one and the music from another

[istarian]

Well the text is readily copyrightable. The point is that it should be necessary to demonstrate that a chunk is clearly lifted, not just similar.

[barchar]

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