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  1. September 30, 2024

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

    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.

  2. July 05, 2024

    GitHub, OpenAI Get Developers' Copyright Claim Tossed

    A California federal judge has trimmed software developers' suit claiming OpenAI and Microsoft's GitHub ripped off their source code to build artificial intelligence tools, axing their claim under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, according to an order unsealed Friday.

  3. May 12, 2023

    Microsoft, ChatGPT Maker Can't Ax Source Code Theft Claims

    A California federal judge kept alive Thursday the bulk of a proposed class action alleging that ChatGPT-bot creator OpenAI and Microsoft's GitHub ripped off software developers' source code to build artificial intelligence tools Copilot and Codex, finding that the threat the companies could use their code is enough to establish standing.

  4. January 27, 2023

    Microsoft, Others Want Out Of Source Code Copyright Suit

    Artificial intelligence company OpenAI and Microsoft's GitHub have urged a California federal judge to toss a copyright suit lodged against them by programmers over purportedly stolen source code, arguing that the complaint doesn't show how any plaintiff was harmed.

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