US Appeals Court Rules in Favor of OpenAI and Microsoft in Artificial Intelligence Case
In a lawsuit filed by software developers, an appeals court upheld a ruling that copyrights were not infringed during artificial intelligence training.
An appeals court in the US has upheld a ruling in favor of OpenAI and Microsoft in part of a lawsuit alleging the companies misused GitHub code to train their artificial intelligence systems.
Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Companies
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the earlier court decision regarding the copyright portion of the lawsuit filed by software developers.
Background of the Lawsuit and Allegations
Two anonymous plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI in 2022, claiming the companies used open-source software on GitHub without authorization.
The plaintiffs argued that OpenAI's Codex and Microsoft's Copilot tools violated copyright laws and open-source license terms.
Copyright Law and DMCA Violation Allegations
In its review under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the court determined that the artificial intelligence tools in question did not remove copyright management information.
District Judge Jon Tigar had previously dismissed the DMCA claims but allowed allegations regarding open-source license terms to proceed.