Category: Doe v. Github
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Court stays Github AI copyright case to refer central DMCA question to Ninth Circuit: interlocutory appeal
Judge Jon S. Tigar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has granted a motion to let class-action lawyers appeal a specific legal question involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and has stayed the litigation.
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Developer class-action seeks to put Github AI copyright case on hold pending appellate clarification of DMCA
Context: Some of the U.S. copyright infringement lawsuits targeting AI providers like OpenAI involve § 1202 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims over the alleged removal of copyright management information (CMI). In the Northern District of California, a judge dismissed those claims in a case against Github, its parent company Microsoft and its AI provider…