This is absolutely fucking beautiful.
I'm gonna say 99% chance Adobe is going to lose (or choose not to fight so that they can retain legal ambituity), because for them to win means there needs to be a new definition of a copyright violation.
"Did they copy the code and change a few things" was a very concrete test, but "is this similar enough to be considered a violation" is a vague mess.
If they want to argue that the model contains their IP then accepting that argument is equivalent to forfeiting the AI race, nobody is going to do that.
But on the other side, a copyright is not a patent so it doesn't confer broad protection against someone doing something "substantially similar".
I'm calling it: This is the Shot Heard Round The World for software copyright protection.
Caleb James DeLisle
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2026-10-07 14:23:50 UTC
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