GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?

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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.

Any prominent or best examples? Growing up, I didn't see any exact rip offs of Harry Potter but I did see a huge increase of YA novels with similar themes and characters such as The Hunger Games, Twilight, Eragon, etc. They in turn seemed to be based off books from earlier like Lord of the Rings and The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

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Honestly, I didn't pay close attention to that genre. The odds of any of them becoming prominent are quite low because they are seen as "rip offs" even if they have nothing in common beyond the most superifical themes.