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GitHub Copilot is a programming auto-suggestion tool trained from public source code on the internet. An attorney is investigating the possibility of filing a copyright claim against GitHub. There are two potential lines of attack here: is GitHub improperly training Copilot on open source code and is the tool improperly emitting other people's copyrighted work.

GitHub Copilot may steer Microsoft into a copyright lawsuit

Uh oh… This is looking really bad for Github and Microsoft

So is this someone with a legitimate case right now or is it just a fishing expedition to find something to sue for? It sounds like its an attorney fishing.

For those wondering, they will never win that case. Code is not copyrighted in open source projects, never has been and never will. This is pure trying to get money out of Microsoft.