Papers on GitHub Copilot, copyright law, and ownership for AI-generated code
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                   In our call for papers, we set forth several areas of interest. Most
of these areas centered around copyright law, questions of ownership
for AI-generated code, and legal impacts for GitHub authors who use a
GNU or other copyleft license for their works. We are pleased to
announce the community-provided research into these areas and much
more. This folder contains the HTML version of the finalists' papers.
                
            
            
        
                             

                             
                             
                                 


    

    
    
    

        
            
            
                
                

                    
                        
                        If Software is My Copilot, Who Programmed My Software?
                    

                    
                        
                        
                        
                         
                        
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                              Bradley M. Kuhn, Policy Fellow, Software Freedom Conservancy
                              

                            

                            
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                        Interpreting docstrings without using common sense
                    

                    
                        
                        
                        
                         
                        
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                              Darren Abramson, Associate Professor, Dalhousie University and Ali Emami, Assistant Professor, Brock University
                              

                            

                            
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                        Copilot, Copying, Commons, Community, Culture
                    

                    
                        
                        
                        
                         
                        
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                              Robert F.J. Seddon, Honorary Fellow, University of Durham
                              

                            

                            
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                        Copyright Implications of the Use of Code Repositories to Train a Machine Learning Model
                    

                    
                        
                        
                        
                         
                        
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                              John A. Rothchild, Professor of Law, Wayne State University and Daniel H. Rothchild, PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley
                              

                            

                            
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                        On the Nature of AI Code Copilots
                    

                    
                        
                        
                        
                         
                        
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                              Stuart Fitzpatrick, Doctoral Candidate, Western Sydney University
                              

                            

                            
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