OpenAI, GitHub Must Face IP Claims in Suit Over Coding Tool (1)

OpenAI Inc. and GitHub Inc. were unable to completely shake a copyright lawsuit from a group of open-source software programmers claiming that the artificial intelligence coding tool Copilot unlawfully reproduces their code.

In a mixed ruling, a San Francisco federal judge found on Thursday that the programmers could advance claims that Copilot violated a section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that prohibits removing copyright notices and licensing terms from their work.

The opinion by US District Judge Jon S. Tigar is the first in a number of court clashes over the intersection between copyright law and quickly advancing generative ...