[nexa] We’ve filed a law­suit chal­leng­ing GitHub Copi­lot, an AI prod­uct that relies on unprece­dented open-source soft­ware piracy.

[Giacomo Tesio]

Today, we’ve filed a class-action law­suit in US fed­eral court in San
Fran­cisco, CA on behalf of a pro­posed class of pos­si­bly mil­lions
of GitHub users. We are chal­leng­ing the legal­ity of GitHub Copi­lot
(and a related prod­uct, OpenAI Codex, which pow­ers Copi­lot). The
suit has been filed against a set of defen­dants that includes GitHub,
Microsoft (owner of GitHub), and OpenAI.

[...]

By train­ing their AI sys­tems on pub­lic GitHub repos­i­to­ries
(though based on their pub­lic state­ments, pos­si­bly much more) we
con­tend that the defen­dants have vio­lated the legal rights of a vast
num­ber of cre­ators who posted code or other work under cer­tain
open-source licenses on GitHub. Which licenses? A set of 11 pop­u­lar
open-source licenses that all require attri­bu­tion of the author’s
name and copy­right, includ­ing the MIT license, the GPL, and the
Apache license. (These are enu­mer­ated in the appen­dix to the
com­plaint.)

In addi­tion to vio­lat­ing the attri­bu­tion require­ments of these
licenses, we con­tend that the defen­dants have vio­lated:

- GitHub’s own terms of ser­vice and pri­vacy poli­cies;

- DMCA § 1202, which for­bids the removal of copy­right-man­age­ment
  infor­ma­tion;

- the Cal­i­for­nia Con­sumer Pri­vacy Act;

and other laws giv­ing rise to related legal claims.


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Giacomo
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