Technology,
Intellectual Property,
Class Action
Nov. 7, 2022
Microsoft and Github violated open-source licensing, lawsuit alleges
The case is the first class action in the nation challenging the training and output of AI programs and could clarify the longstanding debate surrounding fair use and the ethics of training AI tools with data sourced from open-source creators.
Microsoft Corp., its subsidiary GitHub Inc., and its artificial intelligence technology partner, OpenAI, are accused in a lawsuit of violating open source licenses when the companies made an AI-based coding product.
According to GitHub, the program, GitHub Copilot, was trained using billions of lines of publicly available code. However, the people who wrote that code were not given any sort of attribution, a condition for the use of the li...
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