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by BeefySwain 497 days ago
Why is a binary (compiled machine code) protected by copyright, but the raw output of an AI model is not?
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andsoitis 496 days ago
Courts have ruled that compilation does not remove originality—the binary is still a transformation of an original, copyrighted work (the source code).
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realusername 496 days ago
Because binaries are a transformation of the source code, which is written by a human.

Other kind of binaries which are fully generated by a machine like private keys aren't copyrightable.

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