Question

A legal reviewer at your company asks whether enabling the 'Suggestions matching public code' filter (set to block) means the organization no longer needs any human review of Copilot-generated code for licensing or intellectual-property concerns. As the Copilot administrator, how should you characterize what this filter actually provides?

Accepted Answer

The filter suppresses suggestions that closely match public code on GitHub, reducing—but not eliminating—the chance of matching public code, so human review and normal IP due diligence are still recommended.

Answer

The filter performs a full license scan of every suggestion and guarantees that no output is subject to any open-source license, so no further review is needed.

Answer

The filter transfers all copyright liability for accepted suggestions to GitHub, so the organization bears no responsibility for the code it ships.

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The filter rewrites matching suggestions into original, license-free code before presenting them, guaranteeing clean-room output.