Reply to post: Microsoft kinda has a point about the anonymous lawsuit thing.

Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI urge judge to bin Copilot code rip-off case

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Microsoft kinda has a point about the anonymous lawsuit thing.

Certainly on the criminal side, there's a right to face your accuser. How can you file any lawsuit without publicly stating who the plaintiff is?

The rest, however, seems quite legitimate. Microsoft copied a HUGE amount of copyrighted works without checking the licenses to make sure that was legal, and their software is specifically designed to disseminate that copied work (typically in very small pieces, but that doesn't matter legally) without attribution. If someone did that to Microsoft's software, MS would be all over them with lawsuits. Pot, kettle?

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