alt Hacker NewsGood point. That fake commit addendum means that the entire commit contents would not be under copyright protection. AI generated code is not currently copyrightable.
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whattheheckheck • yesterday at 10:07 PM
Is thos actually decided yet? Closest thing was the image generation cases. What's your go to source for this?
bdangubic • yesterday at 10:04 PM
Not that simple… this is great read: https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-w...
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hirvi74 • today at 12:49 AM
Outside this instance, how can one prove code was AI generated beyond a reasonable doubt? Also, do you (or anyone else) know how much AI/copied-code has to be modified for it to be considered independent?
If AI generates code, and one just renames some variables/method signatures, then what?
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It doesn't mean that. A Co-Authored-By header isn't a legal signature or legal assertion of AI generated code.