Who Owns the Code Claude Wrote? The Legal Mess No One's Talking About

Anthropic accidentally published 512,000 lines of Claude Code's source in a routine update. Before sunrise, GitHub mirrors. Before breakfast, someone had rewritten the whole thing in Python. Then came 8,000 DMCA takedowns — for code that Anthropic's own lead engineer said was predominantly written by Claude itself. Can you issue a DMCA takedown for code copyright law may not protect? Nobody had a clean answer. That's the problem. "If Claude Code was, by Anthropic's