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Microsoft, OpenAI call on US appeals court to affirm dismissal of developers' copyright claims

( July 11, 2025, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Microsoft and OpenAI asked a US appeals court to affirm an order dismissing developers’ claims accusing them of using licensed code to train their artificial intelligence-powered coding tools. “Plaintiffs name no copyrighted work, allege no instance of infringement of their code, plead no plausible pattern or modus operandi of infringement driven by the lack of [copyright management information], and never explain how developers' uses of short, generated snippets of functional software code will yield significant copyright infringement at all,” they argued. See attached file. ...

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