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Posted by senaevren 1 day ago

Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?(legallayer.substack.com)
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threepts 1 day ago|
Whoever pays for the tokens.
theteapot 6 hours ago||
That was a rather unhelpful TL;DR.
teeray 16 hours ago||
What if no meaningful thought was put into the code (entirely vibe-coded slop), but it’s made for your employer? Shouldn’t the work be uncopyrightable?
mock-possum 22 hours ago||
I do. I used a tool to create it. I own the things I create.

Anything else is just bullshit equivocation.

6d6b73 23 hours ago||
LLMs are just tools we use. If I program an app in C++, do I not own the rights to the executable because my compiler wrote machine code for me?
jMyles 1 day ago||
There is no such thing as ownership of a pattern of information. It has been an illusion, and that illusion is now fading.
mensetmanusman 1 day ago||
It’s the same as photography. No photographer built the multibillion dollar supply chain for the optics train in a camera, nor did they build the city scape they are enjoying as a background, they simply set the stage and push a button.
DeathArrow 1 day ago||
I have a wood cutting machine and some wood. Who owns the timber?
bell-cot 1 day ago|||
Sadly, IP "ownership" and copyright law are vastly more complex than ownership of physical stuff.

Or were you planning to reproduce the (say) Ford Motor Company's trademarked symbol in wood? If so, you're right back in the stinkin' swamp.

croes 1 day ago||
What is the wood in your example?

This is like a machine you ask for timber and you get timber but you didn’t need to provide any wood

ghstinda 19 hours ago||
yo Mama

-Claude

dang 21 hours ago|
Could you please stop posting generated comments to HN? It's not allowed here, and it looks like you've done it over 30 times already.

(Of course, there's no way to be certain of this, but it's what our software thinks, and the overall pattern is pretty convincing.)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079

woolion 11 hours ago||
On that matter, wouldn't an AI flag for submissions help hn? I wouldn't flag a submission for LLM style as it is too harsh, but I don't want to read them -- if only because I don't like LLM prose.

There are so many submissions where most of the discussion is about whether the content has any human effort behind, or the LLM was just a purely assistive role like translating. It's really devaluing hn, IMO. Not sure how much an AI flag would help, or introduce new issues, given how difficult the problem is, though.

simonebrunozzi 9 hours ago|||
Curious: how do you exactly detect an AI-generated comment?
wartywhoa23 9 hours ago||
A case when security through obscurity is perfectly justified.
senaevren 21 hours ago|||
You are definitely right to flag it, apologize for that. I used an AI assistant for the replies, and I will make sure not to use one going forward.
green_wheel 13 hours ago|||
Why do you use an AI assistant for the replies?
imafish 11 hours ago||
My guess is she wants to respond to all feedback and questions but doesn't have time to do it all by hand.
Kuxe 12 hours ago||||
This too is a generated post
dang 20 hours ago|||
Appreciated!
Imustaskforhelp 9 hours ago|||
@dang, just wanted to say that it seems that the response to your statement does also seem to be AI generated. Dead-internet theory is turning real day by the day, oof.
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