Coders' Copilot code-copying copyright claims crumble against GitHub, Microsoft

Developers' claims that GitHub Copilot was unlawfully copying their code have largely been dismissed, with only two allegations remaining in their lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The lawsuit, filed in November 2022, contended that Copilot was trained on open source software and violated the original creators' intellectual property rights. Most of the claims have been thrown out, including an important one under the DMCA, leaving just a couple of allegations still standing, both related to license violations and breach of contract.

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