There's definitely a "too big to fail" thing going on here given how many billion/trillion dollar companies around the world now have 18+ months of AI-assisted code in their shipped products.
Several of the big LLM vendors offer a "copyright shield" policy to their paying customers, which effectively means that their legal teams will step in to fight for you if someone makes a copyright claim against you.
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There's definitely a "too big to fail" thing going on here given how many billion/trillion dollar companies around the world now have 18+ months of AI-assisted code in their shipped products.
Several of the big LLM vendors offer a "copyright shield" policy to their paying customers, which effectively means that their legal teams will step in to fight for you if someone makes a copyright claim against you.
Some examples:
OpenAI (search for "output indemnity"): https://openai.com/policies/service-terms/
Google Gemini: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/p...
Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot...
Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanded-legal-protections-ap...
Cohere: https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-intellectual-property
It is wild to me that in retrospect the only thing Napster did wrong was not raise enough Saudi money.