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by test098 1318 days ago
Here's the thing - the US has well-established laws around copyright that don't consider learning from books a violation of those copyrights. This lawsuit is intended to challenge Copilot as a violation of licensing and isn't a litigation of "how people learn." Your program stole my code in violation of my license - there's a clear legal issue here.

I'd pose a question to you - would it be okay for me to copy/paste your code verbatim into my paid product in violation of your license and claim that I'm just using it for "learning"?

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If you cherry picked sections of my code? I'd have no more issue with it then George R.R. Martin would care if you grabbed a few paragraphs out of one of his fantasy books and used them in your novel.