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Github Copilot can make commits now. But who owns the code?

GitHub’s Copilot has stepped out of the passenger seat – raising questions about accountability and authorship.
June 05, 2025

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

As AI agents take the keyboard, do the rules of code authorship and responsibility need rewriting?

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