Yes, but as soon as copyright became a problem for very rich people parts of it were cancelled.

1) re-implementation for compatibility (which was quickly "reestablished" through use of copyright-protecting encryption. In other words: do you get to write software that connects to MS/Apple/Google/Facebook servers without authorization from those companies? Yes. Do you get to copy an encryption key from their software to make it possible? No)

and, more recently,

2) violating copyright for LLM training

and, currently mostly attempted:

3) "uncopyrighting" run software through an LLM, and some people "believe" it comes out with your copyright on it! Because very rich people want to sell uncopyrighting.

Ie. the jury's still out what will happen when it's billionnaire vs billionnaire.

Of course, the question is what happens the second someone does this with a disney movie, or a big microsoft application ...