“The idea-expression dichotomy means that copyright has traditionally been understood to exist only for human-created work, and copyright has been similarly understood to be owned only by human beings. Up until recent technological developments, creative implementation has for the most part always had to be executed by humans. The introduction of generative LLMs however disrupts this traditional workflow of idea-expression, as (in the case of wholly LLM-generated work) a human being can now contribute merely the idea, with the implementation and expression of that idea performed by the LLM.Nevertheless, we can see that copyright law across multiple jurisdictions remains mostly clear: the copyright owner has to be a human being, and the copyright should only extend to human-created work.”fsfe.org/news/2026/news-202608#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #VibeCoding #Copyright #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource