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htpltr··on Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?
Antitrust is one thing, but by cleanroom implementation standards (one team reads the source and writes a spec, another team writes the code) CoPilot is illegal to begin with.

CoPilot reads and rearranges the IP that was created by millions of people who were working very hard and did not anticipate a code laundering machine when they wrote the code and the licenses.

htpltr··on Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?
Considered fair use? Google settled with the Authors Guild.

Displaying book excerpts also:

- Leaves the attribution and copyright intact.

- Is not intended to use excerpts verbatim or slightly modified, unless quoting them with attribution.

- May increase the sales of the book.

I agree with the OP of the submission that this case is entirely irrelevant for the CoPilot situation.