Nov 17, 2019 San Francisco / CA / USA – GitHub headquarters in San Francisco; GitHub, a Microsoft subsidiary, provides hosting for software development version control using Git. Credit: Sundry Photography/Adobe Stock Joseph Saveri Law Firm, Co-Counsel File 9th Circuit Appeal in Lawsuit Targeting GitHub's Use of Code to Train AI Models
The appeal questions whether liability under § 1202(b) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is limited to the "removal or alteration of Copyright Management Information from an identical copy of a work."
October 11, 2024 at 09:01 PM
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What You Need to Know
- Doe v. Github, filed in 2022, is widely considered the first lawsuit to address tech companies' use of copyrighted materials to train generative AI models.
- The complaint alleged that GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI, among other alleged offenses, violated Section 1202(b) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
- On Oct. 8, the plaintiffs counsel filed a petition with the Ninth Circuit to address whether claims brought under Section 1202(b) of the DMCA has an
Plaintiffs counsel in Doe v. GitHub, which is widely considered to be the first lawsuit to challenge companies' use of copyrighted materials to train generative artificial intelligence models, on Tuesday filed a new petition to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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