Technology
Nov. 13, 2023
Coders try again in filing of open source theft case
A federal judge found the coders sufficiently alleged breach of license and injury to property rights and gave them leave to amend their claims for tortious interference in a contractual relationship, fraud and injury to privacy rights
Attorneys for anonymous coders clashed again with counsel for OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s subsidiary GitHub Inc. over whether open source licenses were violated when the companies’ artificial intelligence program GitHub Co-pilot trained itself using billions of lines of open source code without attribution.
During the parties’ previous bout, the coders — represented by sole practitioner Matthew Butterick in Los Angeles and the Josep...
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