They can't. AI generated code cannot be copyrighted. They've stated that claude code is built with claude code. You can take this and start your own claude code project now if you like. There's zero copyright protection on this.

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krlx 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Given that from 2026 onwards most of the code is going to be computer generated, doesn't it open some interesting implications there ?

	▲	shimman 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's undetermined if code will be majority written by machines, especially as people start to realize how harmful these tools are without extreme diligence. Outages at Cloudflare, AWS, GitHub, etc are just the beginning. Companies aren't going to want to use tools that can potentially cause $100s of millions in potential damages (see Amazon store being down causing massive revenue loss).

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0x3f 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm sure it's not _entirely_ built that way, and in practically speaking GitHub will almost certainly take it down rather than doing some kind of deep research about which code is which.

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panny 5 hours ago | parent [-]

That's fine. File a false claim DMCA and that's felony perjury :) They know for a fact that there is no copyright on AI generated code, the courts have affirmed this repeatedly.

	▲	antonio0720 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
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nananana9 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Try not to be overly confident about things where even the experts in the field (copyright lawyers) are uncertain of.

There's no major lawsuits about this yet, the general consensus is that even under current regulations it's in the grey. And even if you turn out to be right, and let's say 99% of this code is AI-generated, you're still breaking the law by using the other 1%, and good luck proving in court what parts of their code were human written and what weren't (especially when being sued by the company that literally has the LLM logs).