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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declined to hold a link-aggregating site directly liable for copyright infringement merely because it directed a user's browser to content hosted on the copyright owner's servers. The court also narrowed the basis for treating URLs as copyright management information under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected using Section 1202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to create a new basis for liability based on the absence of copyright information from the outputs of a new model. The decision ends a legal theory advanced by anonymous GitHub contributors against OpenAI and Microsoft, while other contractual claims in the case remain.