Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
- Why it matters
- The government's position on whether training data scraped from published work constitutes fair use may influence how courts interpret copyright law for AI companies, affecting what companies can legally use to build their systems.
- Most affected
- AI companies training on published content — Government backing strengthens their legal argument that this is permissible without licensing.
- Likely next
- Whether the court rules on OpenAI's fair-use defense and how it weighs the government's position.