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GitHub's automatic coding tool rests on untested legal ground Item Info

Title:
GitHub's automatic coding tool rests on untested legal ground
Creator:
Gershgorn, D.
Date Created:
2021-07-07
Description:
Summary of how copilot is build on public code repositories
Subjects:
week-2 generative-AI news
Resource URL:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/7/22561180/github-copilot-legal-copyright-fair-use-public-code
Annotation:
Is there a legal case that copilot has violated licensing agreements by harvesting so many public repositories into It's codebase?
Submitter:
Ribaric, Tim
Source
Preferred Citation:
"GitHub's automatic coding tool rests on untested legal ground", AI.LD,
Reference Link:
https://elibtronic.github.io/AIL_Database/items/ail_022.html