OpenAI, Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code

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OpenAI, Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code
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Microsoft Corp, Microsoft's GitHub Inc and OpenAI Inc told a San Francisco federal court that a proposed class-action lawsuit for improperly monetizing open-source code to train their artificial-intelligence systems cannot be sustained.

with code from GitHub repositories without complying with open-source licensing terms, and that Copilot unlawfully reproduces their code.

"Copilot's goal is to replace a huge swath of open source by taking it and keeping it inside a GitHub-controlled paywall," the complaint said. "It violates the licenses that open-source programmers chose and monetizes their code despite GitHub's pledge never to do so." The companies also said the lawsuit did not identify particular copyrighted works they misused or contracts that they breached.

that Google's use of Oracle source code to build its Android operating system was transformative fair use.Monday it would invest billions of dollars in the popular generative AI company OpenAI, which it first backed with $1 billion in 2019.

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