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Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHubs Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of code authors.

For years we've covered the problems of copyright trolls -- abusive schemes in which aggressive lawyers and schemers leverage...

Charging excessive fees. qualcomms licensing practices have strangled competition and harmed rivals. equipment manufacturers and consumers in the process. the company makes computers and modems for smartphones but it makes most of its money from licensing technology that allows phones to connect to cell phone towers. the judge ruled qualcomm should not receive a percentage of sales of each phone a company sells and ordered it to renegotiate license terms with customers in good faith. the ruling ...