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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...

tuananh.netRelicensing with AI-assisted rewriteExploring the chardet v7.0.0 controversy: Can an AI rewrite legally 'launder' a library from LGPL to MIT?

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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?

Many of my prompts start with me feeding in the entirety of my existing code - hard to see how that decision relating to image generation applies to LLMs for code

Is this limited to "one-shot" workflows? What if, i.e., I correct some decisions while letting some of it rip? (I suspect the answer is "it depends, evidentiary hearings would be needed")

It is an interesting question as to how much human involvement is required. There was a patent cases as well (older, pre-agent). I would imaging the browser or Next JS reimplementations (with no human involvement) are likely pretty close to the image copyright case.