The new copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI comes a week after The New York Times filed a similar complaint in New York.

Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim::The new copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI comes a week after The New York Times filed a similar complaint in New York.

  • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    10 months ago

    Well. That sounds perfectly legal. However, mind that “leaked” implies unauthorized copying and/or a violation of trade secrets. But it’s not a given, that looking at such code violates any law.

    • AdanisiEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      And if they’re not going to respect the copyleft, they are also performing unauthorised copying.

      • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        10 months ago

        “Copyleft” means certain types of copyright licenses. Since these licenses generally allow and encourage public distribution/copying, such code is certainly not leaked. Laws pertaining to trade secrets cannot be involved in principle.

        I think the copies made during AI training would be typically allowed under copyleft licenses. In any case, as it is a copyright license, it is subject to the same limitations.

        • AdanisiEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          Public distribution and copying is allowed, but only if the license in it’s entirety is respected.

          And when the license is void, it’s all rights reserved, right?