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Who legally owns the copyright for AI-generated code produced by GitHub Copilot under the latest US Copyright Office guidelines for commercial software projects?

ChatGPTgpt-62 queries11/1/2026
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Fan-out diagram

The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.

SEED QUERY
Who legally owns the copyright for AI-generated code produced by GitHub Copilot under the latest US Copyright Office guidelines for commercial software projects?
2 real searches · 1 real-search pass
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GitHub Copilot terms of service ownership suggestions code output customer owns output copyrightGoogle ↗
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Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.

Query classes

Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.

Classifying 2 queries…

Searches and sources

ChatGPT2 real searches · gpt-6
2025 2026 US Copyright Office AI generated works human authorship report latest guidance copyrightability software code GitHub Copilot Google ↗
GitHub Copilot terms of service ownership suggestions code output customer owns output copyright Google ↗

Queries

2 queries · click a column to sort
Query / typeSearchIntentQuery classRouting formatClusterFreq ↓Weight
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