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This isn't true; if you hire a contractor and tell them "write from memory the copyrighted code X which you saw before", and they have such a good memory that they manage to write it verbatim, then you take that code and use it in a way that breaches copyright, you're liable, not the person you paid to copy the code for you. They're only liable if they were under NDA for that code.

>>logicc+(OP)
And what professional developer would not be under NDA for the code he produces for a corporation?

>>belter+j
The topic of this thread is LLMs reproducing _publicly available_ copyright content. Almost no developer would be under NDA for random copyrighted code online.

>>logicc+(OP)
> they have such a good memory that they manage to write it verbatim

No, there is no clause in copyright law that says "unless someone remembered it all and copied it from their memory instead of directly from the original source." That would just be a different mechanism of copying.

Clean-room techniques are used so that if there is incidental replication of parts of code in the course of a reimplementation of existing software, that it can be proven it was not copied from the source work.