There's no difference between producing and copying. Let's take a real world example: music samples. There's an entire clearinghouse process for music sampling, more or less forged after the 80s/90s when sampling blew up. Record companies and artist were like, "hey that's my song", courts agreed, a market was created.
This is pretty analogous to what's happening now, which is code samples. Developers are like, "hey that's my code". But that's where we're diverging, and this is probably because big companies aren't involved. People were sampling Atlantic Records' stuff. People aren't sampling Microsoft's stuff, they're sampling random GitHub OSS project guy's stuff.
But to your point, you're basically arguing that it's fine as long as no one listens to "Bitter Sweet Symphony". Most people think it's not the end user (listener) who's infringing copyright, but the party doing the copying (The Verve). Even if we accept your principle here, you're putting way too heavy a burden on people who use services like Copilot. Am I supposed to check that everything I autocomplete is properly licensed? You more or less said "shut these services down" in so many words.
There's no difference between producing and copying. Let's take a real world example: music samples. There's an entire clearinghouse process for music sampling, more or less forged after the 80s/90s when sampling blew up. Record companies and artist were like, "hey that's my song", courts agreed, a market was created.
This is pretty analogous to what's happening now, which is code samples. Developers are like, "hey that's my code". But that's where we're diverging, and this is probably because big companies aren't involved. People were sampling Atlantic Records' stuff. People aren't sampling Microsoft's stuff, they're sampling random GitHub OSS project guy's stuff.
But to your point, you're basically arguing that it's fine as long as no one listens to "Bitter Sweet Symphony". Most people think it's not the end user (listener) who's infringing copyright, but the party doing the copying (The Verve). Even if we accept your principle here, you're putting way too heavy a burden on people who use services like Copilot. Am I supposed to check that everything I autocomplete is properly licensed? You more or less said "shut these services down" in so many words.