Note that the author, Michael Weinberg, is "Executive Director of NYU Law School's Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy" as well as "President of the Board of the Open Source Hardware Association." He is an actual lawyer (who also knows about open source) unlike most people I see who comment online about Copilot, and whether something is fair use or not.
I'm not going to comment on whether he's right or wrong, lest I fall into the same trap I just outlined, as I'm also not a lawyer, but, unrelated to this particular case, I see this kind of thing often on the internet (as well as real life), where people who have no knowledge or experience about a particular topic go on to comment as if they were an authority on the subject. I see it on /r/legaladvice and other subreddits, and on HN here in many cases, including on certain lab leak theories. It reminds me of the Gell-Man Amnesia Effect.
I'm not going to comment on whether he's right or wrong, lest I fall into the same trap I just outlined, as I'm also not a lawyer, but, unrelated to this particular case, I see this kind of thing often on the internet (as well as real life), where people who have no knowledge or experience about a particular topic go on to comment as if they were an authority on the subject. I see it on /r/legaladvice and other subreddits, and on HN here in many cases, including on certain lab leak theories. It reminds me of the Gell-Man Amnesia Effect.