There's definitely a "too big to fail" thing going on here given how many billion/trillion dollar companies around the world now have 18+ months of AI-assisted code in their shipped products.

Several of the big LLM vendors offer a "copyright shield" policy to their paying customers, which effectively means that their legal teams will step in to fight for you if someone makes a copyright claim against you.

Some examples:

OpenAI (search for "output indemnity"): https://openai.com/policies/service-terms/

Google Gemini: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/p...

Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot...

Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanded-legal-protections-ap...

Cohere: https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-intellectual-property