Hello. This is Matthew Butterick . On October 17 I told you that I had teamed up with the amazingly excellent class-action litigators Joseph Saveri , Cadio Zirpoli , and Travis Manfredi at the Joseph Saveri Law Firm to investigate GitHub Copilot.
Today, we’ve filed a class-action lawsuit in US federal court in San Francisco, CA on behalf of a proposed class of possibly millions of GitHub users. We are challenging the legality of GitHub Copilot (and a related product, OpenAI Codex , which powers Copilot). The suit has been filed against a set of defendants that includes GitHub , Microsoft (owner of GitHub), and OpenAI .