Fees, subscriptions, friction or worse defaults tilt the product toward extraction.

What you can do

Mirror repositories you depend on, keep project exports and document any workflow that cannot move with the code alone.

The evidence

Case file 08 · 18 April 2026GitHub put the code in public. Copilot put the questions in court.GitHub publishes DMCA notices and says Copilot’s training on public repositories is lawful. Developers still have to ask who gets attribution when an assistant reproduces familiar code.4 sources · Read the case file →

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