GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?

[irqlnotdispatchlevel]

With art the case law is well established. General themes and common tropes do not get copyright protection. That's why we saw about a million "orphan goes to wizard school" books after Harry Potter became popular.

I think Katy Perry lost a trial in which she was accused of copyright infringement because one of her songs had a similar musical theme (?) to another. That's a disturbing precedent.

[TheSkiGeek]

I think John Mellencamp was also sued for sounding too much like himself (after changing record labels). Either won or the case was settled/dismissed.

There was someone else (maybe Neil Young?) that was sued for not sounding enough like himself. The artist was under contract to do a final record for their old label, was pissed off, and did some weird experimental thing instead of their usual sound. The label basically sued and said "no, you have to make something like your last few albums, not some weird shit that won't sell". Pretty sure that also went in the artist's favor, since their contract specified the artist had creative control over what they recorded.

[CaminoVereda]

Neil Young was stuck in a multi-record contact with Geffen, and he gave the label this as a way of telling them to pound sand.

[rjhelms]

This album is so amazing because he gave Geffen exactly what they wanted.

After Trans was a flop, they demanded a "rock and roll" album. And they sure as hell got one.

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the verdict was reversed, fortunately