[License-discuss] Curious about derived works and AI...

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Sat May 25 15:31:24 UTC 2024


1. Not in Japan, because they've decided to make their law that way. 2. It
should be the case in most countries, but it is not so far because it's not
literal copying and cases which are attempting to make the point that it is
copying are still in litigation.

On Sat, May 25, 2024, 06:55 Miles Georgi <azimux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi! If I open-source a project with a free license, if code from that
> project winds up being used as training data or prompt data to a
> code-generating AI to generate similar code, would that generated code be
> considered a derived work under any circumstances? And does that
> potentially depend on what license is chosen?
>
> I'm trying to choose a license for a project I wish to release and I'm
> assuming there's no way to protect against something like that but figured
> I'd ask.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Miles
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