Why ai generated code cannot be copyrighted and what to do
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I’ll get straight to the point: ai generated code cannot be copyrighted , which means you don’t own the snippet the way you own hand-written functions. In practice that shows up as licensing headaches, open-source compliance surprises, and sometimes a cease-and-desist from a vendor who claims the m…
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- 2026-09-02 10:28 · DEV Community — AI
Why ai generated code cannot be copyrighted and what to do