On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 20:37 +0100, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/28/23575919/microsoft-openai-github-dismiss-copilot-ai-copyright-lawsuit > > > A cursory reading of this wish to dismiss the case sounds to me as the > usual M$ chutzpah. > Of course they want it gone, as it hurts their profits. >
Sadly it's not. The American legal system isn't built for this. The fact that they're clearly doing something illegal and that it's hurting people isn't grounds for a third-party lawsuit. The victims can file suits, but like Microsoft's lawyers said, the victims have to be able to demonstrate injury. Then for a suit to be worthwhile, that injury has to outweigh your legal fees. In practice this makes it legal for a corporation to steal $1 from each of a billion people. See also: online privacy violations; spam email. Adding onto the pile in this scenario is how difficult it would be to prove that *your* code was copied, considering that they've assimilated most of the available copyrighted material on Earth and that the AI are black boxes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/d30406f886ce7cc61742b5947af01ae1b4985301.camel%40orlitzky.com.
