Litigation·AI·Record·9th Circuit
Doe v GitHub and OpenAI (9th Cir 2026)
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of the plaintiffs’ Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim, holding that AI-generated code output alleged as similar to or derived from existing code does not, without more, show that copyright management information was removed or altered from a copy of an existing protected work.
9th Cir Case No. 24-7700doc date 2026-09-16source: PDF