Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Plaintiffs argued that with the popularity of Copilot, it is a near certainty that their code will be used with copyright notices removed or in violation of their open-source licenses. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants reproduced code as output without attribution, copyright notice, or license terms. Corelogic, Inc. ,

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JUNE 7, 2023

As an example, the plaintiffs cite a GitHub blog post in which GitHub stated “in one instance, GitHub Copilot suggested starting an empty file with something it had even seen more than a whopping 700,000 different times during training—that was the GNU General Public License.”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Under the 1909 Act, an author received a federal statutory copyright merely by publishing the work with proper copyright notice. Nonetheless, the 1909 Act required that the work be registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before an infringement lawsuit could be filed. (For 17 U.S.C. § The post U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Once a work was published, state law was divested, and one of two things happened. If the work was published with proper copyright notice, it received a federal statutory copyright. If the work was published without proper copyright notice, the work entered the public domain.

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