9th Circ. Mulls DMCA Claim Against Microsoft And OpenAI

By Bonnie Eslinger ( February 11, 2026, 7:56 PM EST) -- 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....

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