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Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI ask court to throw out AI copyright lawsuit (theverge.com)
2 points by puppydups 1238 days ago
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from the article: "Microsoft and GitHub say the complaint “fails on two intrinsic defects: lack of injury and lack of an otherwise viable claim,” while OpenAI similarly says the plaintiffs “allege a grab bag of claims that fail to plead violations of cognizable legal rights.” The companies argue that the plaintiffs rely on “hypothetical events” to make their claim and say they don’t describe how they were personally harmed by the tool."
That line and this: > “Copilot withdraws nothing from the body of open source code available to the public,” Microsoft and GitHub claim in the filing.

Reminds me of the "Piracy is NOT theft" meme[0][1] from a few years ago.

[0]https://questioncopyright.org/cm/images/piracy-is-not-theft.... [1]https://archive.is/MbdxH

The difference between piracy and theft in this context is that the pirated contents are also being used for profits (copilot is not free).