Judge trims code-scraping suit against Microsoft, GitHub Anonymous code writers claim GitHub's coding assistant violated open source licenses protecting their work.

The lawsuit that could rewrite the rules of AI copyright Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued for allegedly violating copyright law by reproducing open-source code using AI.

Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are asking a judge to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges its AI-powered Copilot tool illegally scrapes code from GitHub.