Who owns our code?

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

In this episode, we’re joined by tech Lawyer Luis Villa to explore the question, who owns code? The company, the engineer, the team? What about when you’re using AI, Machine learning, GitHub Copilot… is that still your code?

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Featuring:

• Luis Villa – Website, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Tidelift
• Luis’s new newsletter!
• NYTimes review of Dennis Duncan’s “Index, A History of the”
• The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.
• Why Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince Series,’ the Subject of a Long-Term Copyright Dispute, Should Be Considered Fair Use After All

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Chương

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Square (00:00:32)

https://changelog.com/square

3. Intro (00:01:26)

4. Welcoming Luis (00:02:09)

5. Getting to know Luis (00:04:00)

6. Defining ownership in software (00:06:58)

7. Can anyone own the idea of an API? (00:08:45)

8. The core of copyright (00:12:14)

9. How Oracle vs Google ended (00:14:41)

10. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:17:22)

https://firehydrant.com/

11. What does code ownership REALLY mean? (00:18:56)

12. The importance of creativity under US Law (00:21:04)

13. Copyright and the doctrine of "fair use" (00:22:26)

14. Who's liable if copywritten code causes damage? (00:26:19)

15. Who's liable if AI causes damage? (00:28:41)

16. Do code maintainers have liability? (00:32:39)

17. Tidelift's approach to the problem (00:36:48)

18. Is open source sustainable? (00:38:17)

19. The actual purpose of copyright (00:40:31)

20. On legislators being tech-challenged (00:42:29)

21. Scary contractor contracts (00:43:15)

22. Sponsor: Honeycomb (00:45:14)

https://honeycomb.io/changelog

23. On legal systems and copyright challenges (00:46:53)

24. Specific legal considerations for Go? (00:49:25)

25. What happens when open source rules the world (00:52:19)

26. Luis's new Open ML newsletter (00:56:34)

https://www.openml.fyi/

27. Open source as proof of humanity's goodness (00:57:25)

28. It's time for Unpopular Opinions! (00:58:54)

29. Luis's unpop (00:59:27)

30. Kris's unpop (01:01:12)

31. Closing time! (01:04:20)

32. Outro (01:04:46)