September 16, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of a case brought by a group of anonymous programmers who accused OpenAI and Microsoft of taking source code from public repositories on GitHub, ruling that the programmers had not sufficiently put the court on notice that they wished to pursue a theory related to artificial intelligence inputs.
February 11, 2026
A group of software developers Wednesday urged the Ninth Circuit to revive their claim that Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by stripping copyright management information from the developers' open source code, which the companies then used to develop the artificial intelligence tools for Microsoft's Copilot software.
January 02, 2026
U.S. federal courts this year will continue to review consequential copyright infringement suits involving artificial intelligence, while appeals court decisions remain pending in a pair of notable fair use cases involving ROSS Intelligence and Microsoft. Here are Law360's picks for copyright cases to watch in 2026.
July 14, 2025
Microsoft and OpenAI have asked the Ninth Circuit to affirm the dismissal of a suit brought by coders who claim that the companies' large language models spit out code almost identical to code they wrote, saying the coders have only alleged hypothetical injuries.