Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> writes:
>> This is well established in the legal community.
>
> Two main things that I understood from the big thread on gnu-prog-discuss
> on the LLM & vibe coding topic:
>
> * There have not been court rulings regarding LLM / vibe coding and
> copyright so far. Therefore all assertions people currently make
> are hypotheses.
>
> * Most contributors in the discussions (including you and me) are
> not lawyers in this domain. The opinions of us amateur lawyers
> are not something one can rely upon.
A semi-related topic that has not been tested in court, but I wonder if
an employer might be able to claim ownership of an employees code that
they write in their free time because they use a enterprise LLM
subscription paid for by their employer.
See a section of California Labor code [1]:
(a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an
employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights
in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an
invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own
time without using the employer’s equipment, supplies, facilities,
or trade secret ...
My guess is that subscriptions would be included in "supplies", but as
you said, none of us are qualified enough to have opinions that can be
relied upon. :)
Collin
[1]
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=LAB§ionNum=2870.
