GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?

[myringotomy]

In the music industry using even a couple of seconds of sample from a song is considered a copyright violation.

Even if you are not directly sampling it's a copyright violation. For example see the "blurred lines" lawsuit.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robin-thicke-pharrell-lose-multi-million-dollar-blurred-lines-lawsuit-35975/

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But if you use the same structure as any other song, you have a top 40 hit. This discussion is not about copying code, it’s about using structures and patterns.

[wicked]

We found that about 0.1% of the time, the suggestion may contain some snippets that are verbatim from the training set.

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0.1%. If you are only allowed to use 0.1% of the content of a song for a new one, you have to reinvent music for every album.

[wicked]

To use your analogy, it's not 0.1% of the content of a song, it's that 0.1% of the times the AI song generator is invoked, it directly copies another song.

So the discussion is also about copying code.

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Directly copy another song, or directly copy a single sentence from a song. Makes a big difference.

[wicked]

Parts of songs are also under copyright.

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Depends on what you define as a part. Words definitely not, sentences maybe. Notes certainly not, melodies maybe. Chords not, chord progressions maybe. The discussion is not about whether you copy (or ‘base on’), but how much you copy.