Doe, et al. v. Github, Inc., et al.

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Case Number:

24-7700

Court:

Appellate - 9th Circuit

Nature of Suit:

  1. February 11, 2026

    9th Circ. Mulls DMCA Claim Against Microsoft And OpenAI

    A group of software developers Wednesday urged the Ninth Circuit to revive their claim that Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by stripping copyright management information from the developers' open source code, which the companies then used to develop the artificial intelligence tools for Microsoft's Copilot software.

  2. January 02, 2026

    Copyright Cases To Watch In 2026

    U.S. federal courts this year will continue to review consequential copyright infringement suits involving artificial intelligence, while appeals court decisions remain pending in a pair of notable fair use cases involving ROSS Intelligence and Microsoft. Here are Law360's picks for copyright cases to watch in 2026.

  3. July 14, 2025

    Microsoft, OpenAI Ask 9th Circ. To Toss Coders' DMCA Claims

    Microsoft and OpenAI have asked the Ninth Circuit to affirm the dismissal of a suit brought by coders who claim that the companies' large language models spit out code almost identical to code they wrote, saying the coders have only alleged hypothetical injuries.