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. Continua (e continuerà a lungo...) su https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/ Giacomo