GitHub Users Defend DMCA, UCL Claims In Row Over Artificial Intelligence Tool

Mealey's (March 17, 2023, 10:31 AM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif.— A pair of Doe plaintiffs oppose motions to dismiss their putative class claims against Microsoft Corp., GitHub Inc. and OpenAI Inc., including violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and California’s unfair competition law (UCL), telling a California federal court that they sufficiently alleged that the defendants used open-source data, without the proper attribution, to create two for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) tools....