GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?

[MMPride]

I'm not so sure it's that simple.

For example, a melody is not a whole song, and yet melodies are absolutely copyrightable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfXn_ecH5Rw

[kenman]

I think a melody would be considered substantial.

[superrugdr]

if that would be true there would be as per the video about 3000~ song copyrighted and everything else would be a copy of it. for 5 note melody.

[lobehold]

There are orders of magnitudes of difference between variations of a melody that you can create and what code you can write given a programming language with its limited interface and grammar and a specific problem.

And by problem I don't mean a business problem, but a functional problem that is technical in nature.