U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Doe v. GitHub (GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI): legal or policy, open-source code used for training
Open-source licence contract claims continue in the district court; the panel took no position on whether Copilot output infringes.
Dated 16 Sep 2026Source checked 18 Sep 2026Quote found on its page again 16 Oct 2026Basis: stated
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“The Ninth Circuit affirmed on September 16, 2026 the dismissal of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claim in Doe v. GitHub, Inc., holding that programmers cannot sue over GitHub Copilot output that omits their attribution notices.”
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Haynes Boone, checked 18 Sep 2026
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