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Programming is art, and no copying code is not the norm only bad programmers do that. Using ideas from other people's code is done though especially with math and other complex algorithms which are infeasible to derive yourself, and this is "taking inspiration" from other people's work by building on top of it when you incorporate such ideas into your own code.
Also no, people open source their code to also help their fellow skilled programmers not just less skilled ones. Being able to see the source helps people understand the software better, fix bugs in it, and use those ideas in their own software.
Finally it depends on if you care about copyright or not. Secrecy is not copyright. You have the right to keep code private yes, but if you post it publicly online then it's fair game for anyone to download (if you are like me and do not believe in copyright, because you cannot own information). Art however inherently requires posting to the internet usually for people to see so it's always fair game to copy (though this does not mean you need to publish the PSD file).
However even if you do care about copyright, you are ignoring fair use. Under fair use people may use copyrighted work with absolutely 0 permission from the owner, as Wikipedia explains:
> Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder.
Things like Google indexing webpages has been ruled as fair use as the act of using this data to provide a great service is considered transformative, obviously Google is not claiming they own the works presented they are just indexing it to make it accessible. Similarly in my view the usage of art in AI is transformative just like a human learning from it is, each image very slightly influences the AI's ability to produce art as it learns from billions of examples. If AI learning from art isn't fair use then well I don't know how you expect people to learn from things either.
Programming is art, and no copying code is not the norm only bad programmers do that. Using ideas from other people's code is done though especially with math and other complex algorithms which are infeasible to derive yourself, and this is "taking inspiration" from other people's work by building on top of it when you incorporate such ideas into your own code.
Also no, people open source their code to also help their fellow skilled programmers not just less skilled ones. Being able to see the source helps people understand the software better, fix bugs in it, and use those ideas in their own software.
Finally it depends on if you care about copyright or not. Secrecy is not copyright. You have the right to keep code private yes, but if you post it publicly online then it's fair game for anyone to download (if you are like me and do not believe in copyright, because you cannot own information). Art however inherently requires posting to the internet usually for people to see so it's always fair game to copy (though this does not mean you need to publish the PSD file).
However even if you do care about copyright, you are ignoring fair use. Under fair use people may use copyrighted work with absolutely 0 permission from the owner, as Wikipedia explains:
> Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder.
Things like Google indexing webpages has been ruled as fair use as the act of using this data to provide a great service is considered transformative, obviously Google is not claiming they own the works presented they are just indexing it to make it accessible. Similarly in my view the usage of art in AI is transformative just like a human learning from it is, each image very slightly influences the AI's ability to produce art as it learns from billions of examples. If AI learning from art isn't fair use then well I don't know how you expect people to learn from things either.