Who owns our code? (Go Time #252)
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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- 0:00 Opener
- 0:32 Sponsor: Square
- 1:26 Intro
- 2:09 Welcoming Luis
- 4:00 Getting to know Luis
- 6:58 Defining ownership in software
- 8:45 Can anyone own the idea of an API?
- 12:14 The core of copyright
- 14:41 How Oracle vs Google ended
- 17:22 Sponsor: FireHydrant
- 18:56 What does code ownership REALLY mean?
- 21:04 The importance of creativity under US Law
- 22:26 Copyright and the doctrine of "fair use"
- 26:19 Who's liable if copywritten code causes damage?
- 28:41 Who's liable if AI causes damage?
- 32:39 Do code maintainers have liability?
- 36:48 Tidelift's approach to the problem
- 38:17 Is open source sustainable?
- 40:31 The actual purpose of copyright
- 42:29 On legislators being tech-challenged
- 43:15 Scary contractor contracts
- 45:14 Sponsor: Honeycomb
- 46:53 On legal systems and copyright challenges
- 49:25 Specific legal considerations for Go?
- 52:19 What happens when open source rules the world
- 56:34 Luis's new Open ML newsletter
- 57:25 Open source as proof of humanity's goodness
- 58:54 It's time for Unpopular Opinions!
- 59:27 Luis's unpop
- 1:01:12 Kris's unpop
- 1:04:20 Closing time!
- 1:04:46 Outro
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