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How Can AI Models Legally Obtain Training Data?–Doe 1 v. GitHub (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

But I think this might have more to do with the way the lawyers pleaded this issue rather than the quality of the potential breach of contract claim here. 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.

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Court Allows Three of Plaintiffs’ Claims to Survive Motion to Dismiss in Lawsuit That Could Significantly Impact the World of Generative AI

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DMCA Section 1202(b) Claims: Section 1202(b) of the DMCA prohibits anyone from (1) intentionally removing or altering any copyright management information (“CMI”), (2) distributing CMI knowing the CMI has been removed or altered or (3) distributing copies of works knowing that CMI has been removed or altered while “knowing, or.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

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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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