Comment by lelanthran

18 hours ago

> If it's actually co authored then you should be fine on copyright

How so? All your outoutput is now legally partly owned by Microsoft?

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baobabKoodaa  5 hours ago

If I write "I own lelanthran's car", does that make me the legal owner of your car? No?

  • lelanthran  3 hours ago

    > If I write "I own lelanthran's car", does that make me the legal owner of your car?

    If I counter sign agreement, certainly. How do you think that sales of both movable and immovable property work?

    • baobabKoodaa  3 hours ago

      That's not what we were talking about. We were talking about a third party modifying your document without your consent (and sometimes even without your knowledge). You write git commit "Fix bug" and then a third party swoops in the night and modifies that with "Co-authored by: Microsoft".

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Dylan16807  15 hours ago

The bot (and therefore microsoft) doesn't get any copyright at all.

  • lelanthran  11 hours ago

    > The bot (and therefore microsoft) doesn't get any copyright at all.

    But then neither do you, for every commit that was marked with copilot.

    • Dylan16807  6 hours ago

      What makes you say that?

      If a monkey uses a typewriter, there's no copyright.

      If I use a typewriter with a monkey, I get copyright and the monkey doesn't.

      Why would the monkey need copyright for me to get copyright?

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