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They're suing for breach of license, because CoPilot copies code and omits any mention of the source license, which they claim is not within Fair Use.

You can read the complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23264658-github-comp...

It's a bit .. odd. Seems to be partially a complaint, and partially a code review of the couple of examples they cite. Not quite sure what the point is there. Other parts are clearly copy-n-pasted with minor changes from Wikipedia without attribution, which is funny to see in a document basically claiming that's what the other side is doing.



My partner is a paralegal, and just yesterday I was marveling that there's no concept of voting legal briefs, just wholesale copying of blocks of text without attribution. You cite /cases/ but briefs are fair game for what anyone outside the legal profession would call plagiarism.




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