Navigating the Legal Landscape of LLM-Generated Code

This chapter examines and discusses the copyright law and regulations of LLM code, who owns what intellectual property (IP), who is liable, and how far the regulations should go. As with all chapters in this book, this chapter gives guidance on how to act. This chapter will help you to stay within the parameters of the law and not run into any legal issues.

Here, we’ll understand the following:

• Unraveling copyright and intellectual property considerations
• Addressing liability and responsibility for LLM-generated code
• Examining legal frameworks governing the use of LLMs in coding
• Possible future of the regulation of AI-generated code

After studying this chapter, you should be aware of possible issues arising from using code generated by an LLM, understand how to deal with legal considerations with the code, plan for the future, and create code that has futureproofing and innovative capabilities...