Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?

On Hacker News today, developers and legal experts are debating whether traditional copyright defenses still hold up in an age of LLM-assisted development. With large language models making app creation much faster, questions are mounting: Is copying a competitor's user interface acceptable? And does "no source code was copied" remain a credible defense when AI generated the code? One observer notes that developers are now experiencing what authors and artists faced with generative AI — a sudden erosion of familiar legal protections. The emerging consensus: the rules are unclear, and copyright disputes may increasingly require expert witnesses.

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