Good. The US made the same decision a little while ago. I’m waiting to see how the courts decide on AI generated code. That’ll be funny when all these companies realize they don’t own their code base anymore.
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The law is kinda weak. You really only need to slightly modify it for it to be copyrightable. No one really pushes full ChatGPT outputs as production code, and so it's safe to assume code can almost always be copyrighted, as long as you did something yourself
You should look up the Zaria of the Dawn case. You need to make more than inconsequential edits for it to be copyrightable, and even then, only your edits are copyrightable.
Also, according to Russian court decision, Google's debt to Russia is $20 decillion.
Most monetarily accurate fine to ever be levied against Google
On one side that sounds reasonable, on the other side, Russian rule of law only partially exists, as long as it is not in the way of the regime. So yeah, whatever.
Russian law exists as long as the room you're in doesn't have a window high enough to accidentally fall out of & die.
To be fair, oligarchs and three-letter-agencies are pretty much above the law everywhere.
Lucky for the regime then that the FSB is having competences for allmost anything, by law even. Even way broader than the Trump SA. But yeah I am sure everywhere else is surely just as bad. I heard it on RT.
I can already hear jingoist Dario Amodei shrieking about how we must oppose the Russian devils' laws by allowing copyright on this side of the Atlantic.
I say we allow it to happen, split the profits amongst the people (starting with the poorest) and then dismantle the entire thing and build it from the ground up with the correct morals & ambitions in mind whilst creating it.
'Copyright' was always insane nonsense, only made up so Capitalism could work. Imagine a world without all the Capitalist market nonsense. Everything is sharable/reusable except 'personal space'. Nobody have heard of 'copy-right'. Then imagine someone whistling a tune, and claiming that that specific tune "IS MINE!" and starts to punk others for money or favors when they whistle what they have just heard.
OC that guy got the whistle technology from others, but he'll hand-wave that fact because he's stupid. He also got the tones from others and most likely he just re-whistled what someone else had already done (open source whistle), or he just re-mixed something others had whistled before, because we mix everything old, and build similar versions - all the time.
This insane person would be laughed out of society for such an exceptionally psychopathic and stupid idea.
..but in this current society, the Capitalist nightmare, it is completely normal to claim ownership of everything you find, touch, or do - even if you used others free work to do it (AI training ?!) - and then everybody else MUST PAY YOU ! Oc, even if normal people all agree that copyright is a psychopaths dream, they will have to play the Capitalist game, or perish.. Be a good guy - stop the ridiculous game !
Pardon me for not caring what a terrorist state is doing. meh