Unraveling copyright and intellectual property considerations

It’s easy to use LLMs such as Devin, Gemini, and GPT-4o to quickly get some code to solve problems, but avoiding eliciting legal issues may be more difficult and needs careful examining.

This can be complex, not least because of the prevailing different jurisdictions around the world, and it partially rests on how similar one piece of work is to another. If you produce a piece of work that is similar enough to a preexisting piece of work, the creator of the preexisting work can claim that you infringed copyright law. Then the question becomes, “Is this second piece of work similar enough to the first piece of work to constitute a copy, derivative work, annotation, reproduction, translation, abridgement, condensation, dramatization, fictionalization or other recast, or adaptation or transformation of the preexisting work?” Currently, there has not been any universal legal framework to handle this kind...