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@simonwillison.net reading through your clean room post, have you thoughts on the Ai output is not copyrightable, ergo it cannot be licensed either? SCOTUS refused to hear appeals a few days ago, so lower court ruling stands for now. This post explores, not a lawyer too tuananh.net/2026/03/05/r...

I think that affects images generated from a single prompt, I haven't seen anything that suggests it affects LLM generated code that's had any hint of human interaction with the coding process at all

I'm very frustrated at how little useful discourse there has been over that issue though - how much do you need to prompt Claude Code before you can claim copyright over the result? Has anyone even tried to answer that question yet?

Again, called out explicitly in the report: www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright... "No matter how many times a prompt is revised and resubmitted, the final output reflects the user’s acceptance of the AI system’s interpretation, rather than authorship of the expression it contains. "