Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 1202

U.S. Court of Appeals Rejects Expanding Copyright Liability in AI Model Training Case

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.