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Post #2796037

2026-03-11 21:26 UTC

@soph@grrl.me Interesting: do you have a citation for vibe-code failing legal checks? No issue if you don't, I can hop on Google and find it, but this would be the first I'd heard of it (most of what I've heard is that LLM output is uncopyrightable, not that it violates someone else's copyright). The reason I ask is that I'm aware of corporate contexts where it's being used and if the courts are leaning towards declaring them copyright violations that could have significant implications (declaring them non-copyrightable probably less so; in practice most companies protect source code as trade-secret because it's hard to prove provenance in a court-of-law... Or by moving so fast that a competitor exfiltrating an out-of-date chunk of source isn't super useful or would require the competitor to also have the hardware / architecture the code "lives" in).

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  • @soph@grrl.me 2026-03-11 21:41

    @mark@mastodon.fixermark.com The big recent one is this one by US Supreme Court: https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-supreme-court-doesnt-care-if-you-want-to-copyright-your-ai-generated-art-171849407.html The test here is that if it fails for artwork, how will code be different, and can projects take that risk? It's a bit of a legal time-bomb.

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