news Cloud Tech Policy 2026-10-07

Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of DMCA Claims Against GitHub Copilot

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI. The court held that Copilot creates new works rather than unlawfully removing copyright management information from underlying source code copies.

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