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EMIRELADERO on Nov 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub Copilot isn't worth the risk

Do you measure IP's value using the amount of work/effort that was put into creating it, or only the end result?

Currently US copyright law only cares about the end result. Effort has no meaning or bearing in any legal analysis of copyright matters.

anticensor on Nov 18, 2022 [–]

Copyright infringement trials are tried in the infringer's jurisdiction.

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