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GitHub Copilot Reproduced Licensed Code Verbatim — PAI incident record

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2
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2
Checked
1 July 2026

Records using this source

  • GitHub / Microsoft

    entity | 1 Jan 2022 | 72%

    GitHub / Microsoft — organisation named in the Production AI Institute incident registry.

  • GitHub Copilot Reproduced Licensed Code Verbatim

    event | 1 Jan 2022 | 80%

    Researchers and users discovered that GitHub Copilot would reproduce verbatim sections of copyrighted, GPL-licensed code from its training data — including commented attribution headers. A class action lawsuit was filed in 2022 alleging copyright infringement and violation of open source licence te…