Judge dismisses programmer's DMCA claims against Microsoft, OpenAI, and GitHub

The judge overseeing the multi-billion dollar collective lawsuit against GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft has partially dismissed the charges against the defendants due to allegations of unauthorized use of intellectual property (IP) to train the "GitHub Copilot" artificial intelligence (AI) coding software. This marks a victory for large tech companies and the AI generation industry, which is currently facing multiple related lawsuits. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit accused OpenAI of "plagiarizing" GitHub and using artificially written code snippets to train GitHub Copilot without permission, payment, or attribution. According to the lawsuit, Copilot copied the artificially written code line by line, and the plaintiffs are seeking compensation of $1 billion. There are five anonymous complainants in this case, ostensibly representing a class action, and in court documents released to the public so far, each person has been marked as "John Doe."