Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims

Kent Sharkey

Developer Tech[^]:

A judge has dismissed the majority of claims in a copyright lawsuit filed by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

The AI didn't copywrong then?

jochance

Hmmm... Nope, I keep looking through couch cushions and checking my pockets. I cannot find sympathy for throwing things to the cloud and then whining they became part of the water cycle.

Nelek

jochance wrote:

I cannot find sympathy for throwing things to the cloud and then whining they became part of the water cycle.

that's getting into my list of answers to some people... :thumbsup::thumbsup: :laugh: :laugh:

M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

obermd

I think all it will take for a copyright case to go ahead is to show that these LLMs used code from a private repository. Then it becomes IP theft. Public repositories don't have this protection.

Nelek

And that's going to be very difficult to find out and possibly even more difficult to prove.

M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

obermd

And GitHub won't be able to do this. A github repository owner who can show that their code has always been in a private repository and that the LLM accessed it will be what it takes.