The Unpopular Opinion

Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to Go Time to school us once again on the intellectual property concerns of software creators in this crazy day we live in. This time around, we’re focusing on the implications of Large Language Models, code generation, and crazy stuff like that.

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Show Notes:

• Who owns our code? Part 1
• Monkey selfie copyright dispute
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• OpenAi
• Luis Villa’s newsletter
• Big Code

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