9th Circ. Asked To Interpret DMCA In GitHub Code Suit

By Ivan Moreno (September 30, 2024, 5:34 PM EDT) -- A California federal court has asked the Ninth Circuit to determine if the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires an infringing copy be identical to the original to have an actionable claim for removing copyright management information, a key question in a case where developers sued Microsoft and GitHub for allegedly ripping off code to develop AI tools....

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