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Felix Reda
Personal blog · felixreda.eupolitics
Felix Reda's personal blog at felixreda.eu covers politics. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Felix Reda's blog for its copyright analysis, especially the GitHub Copilot post on whether it infringes copyright. Other links cover piracy and a displacement study.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-06-23
What Hacker News says?
AFAIK only people can own copyright (the monkey selfie case tested this), and machine-generated outputs don't count as creative work (you can't write an algorithm that generates every permutation of notes and claim you own every song[1]), so DALL-E-generated images are most likely copyright-free. I presume OpenAI only relies on terms of service to dictate what users are allowed to do, but they can't own the images,…
Comment linking /2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/
on “DALL·E now available in beta”Submitted GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (2021) as a story · 74 points
HN discussionTough pill to swallow. Microsoft's actions don't seem fair, but fighting them with copyright could weaken fair use : https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin... There's a good argument that demanding copyright protections on scraped datasets and short snippets is a double-edged sword. It could harm search engines, distribution of news, and non-commercial ML research too.
Comment linking /2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/
on “Copilot sells code other people wrote”Submitted GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSome interesting reading: https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin... https://fossa.com/blog/analyzing-legal-implications-github-c...
Comment linking /2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/
on “Give up GitHub: The time has come”In some cases it is actually beneficial (videogames) (I'm not gonna read the study, just trusting what I read online) Study link https://felixreda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/displacement...
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf
on “Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds”Except every attorney that has taken a look disagrees with you. So it is complex and unless you have any standing or new data I think it's safe to dismiss your entire argument. https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/06/github-copilot-initial-th... https://fossa.com/blog/analyzing-legal-implications-github-c... https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin...
Comment linking /2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/
on “GitHub-Next”