[metalcrow]

> So if it turns out Dataroom's developers are all Claude fans, and Claude is copying Papermark code, then it's just a normal license violation. LLMs do not launder copyright.

That's an easy case, but a more interesting question to me is if there wasn't any direct source code access (similar to an open source example I can't remember the name of atm). If you give an LLM requirements matching the copyrighted products capabilities, and it doesn't have Internet access, and it spits out different code that accomplishes the same stuff papermarks product does, do you believe courts would allow that, and copyrighted could be laundered legally?

[kube-system]

If, in fact, you copy computer software by spec and never had access to the code -- that's a clean room reimplementation and doesn't violate copyright. Copyright covers the human expression of software -- the text of the code itself. It can also cover non-code assets included in your software like graphics. Copyright does not cover the ideas, goals, designs, concepts, principles, etc of your software.