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Legal aspects of a Repairnator and program repair bots #822

Open monperrus opened 5 years ago

monperrus commented 5 years ago

see also #755

monperrus commented 5 years ago

Law and intellectual property: "Let us dwell on one point in particular, the question of intellectual property. On May 3rd, 2018, Repairnator produced a good patch for GitHub project eclipse/ditto. Shortly after having proposed the patch, one of the developers asked “We can only accept pull-requests which come from users who signed the Eclipse Foundation Contributor License Agreement.”. We were puzzled because a bot cannot physically or morally sign a license agreement and is probably not entitled to do so. Who owns the intellectual property and responsibility of a bot contribution: the robot operator, the bot implementer or the repair algorithm designer? This is one of the interesting questions uncovered by the Repairnator project."

https://medium.com/@martin.monperrus/human-competitive-patches-in-automatic-program-repair-with-repairnator-359042e00f6a

monperrus commented 5 years ago

What about taxing Repairnator? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/sunday-review/tax-artificial-intelligence.html

(thanks to @bbaudry for the link)

monperrus commented 4 years ago

AI Authorship? Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/7/245693-ai-authorship