Comment by reliablereason
17 hours ago
This is like asking:
"Who owns the text microsoft word helped you write?"
Claude code is a software tool not a legal entity.
17 hours ago
This is like asking:
"Who owns the text microsoft word helped you write?"
Claude code is a software tool not a legal entity.
Not if claude does the writing. MS doesn't write things for you, and if it did, you would not be entitled to a copyright in whatever it wrote for you.
Claude is not a legal entity, it is a software tool that outputs text based on statistics. There is a user that used a tool to create text and that user is the legal entity responsible for the text in any legal way that matters.
Anything else would be completely ridiculous given current laws in most countries.
It would be as ridiculous as blaming the car in a car accident where you drove over someone.
Those "statistics" that the output is based on are often under licenses that forbid making proprietary software with them for example. It is not the same as using Word.
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> Claude is not a legal entity
And?
>It would be as ridiculous as blaming the car in a car accident where you drove over someone.
No more ridiculous than you posting something you know nothing about.
Just because you don't get the copyright doesn't mean claude does. The fact that claude is not a legal entity has no bearing on whether or not you are entitled to a copyright for a work you did not create.
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