A panel of federal appeals court judges at oral arguments Wednesday questioned how to draw the proper legal lines in a lawsuit from programmers alleging Github Inc. and OpenAI Inc. failed to give proper attribution when generating code with the AI tool Copilot.
At issue in the case before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is how the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which updated copyright law for the internet age, applies to generative AI models that train on copyrighted data containing author attributions and copyright information.
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