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Comment by tkdb | original | All AI-generated code should be Open Source
[−]tkdb · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:04 UTC · link
This is very much still working it's way through the courts (in the US at least).

The first major precedent was in 2023 with Zarya of the Dawn comic book, where the US Copyright Office rules the midjourney-generated images were not protected, but the human-written text was.

The active front is Allen v. Perlmutter.