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		Talanes on July 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All public GitHub code was used in training Copilo... >In your hypothetical, this would be akin to me going on Google books and copying snippets of copyrighted works for my own book. A book completely written by pasting passages of other books would actually be a pretty interesting transformative work.

BlueTemplar on July 9, 2021 [–]

Yeah, but a book like this would be an artistic work.

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