Simon Richter wrote: > On 8/5/26 5:59 PM, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > > > As I understand it, the problem with copyright isn't that AI providers > > might claim copyright. It's that *someone else* might claim copyright > > because the AI scraped and regurgitated their code. That's still an open > > legal question AFAIK. > > That, and whether the person prompting AI can claim copyright on the > generated code.
So if I ask a *question* I may claim copyright on the *answer*? Well, in a sense, it could be argued that the answer is a "derivative work" of the question. But I don't think that anybody would take this argument seriously. Certainly it doesn't work like that when you ask a human. Why would asking a machine be different? Additionally, I'm pretty sure that the terms of service of every corporate LLM require users to surrender any rights they might have. Gerardo
