News outlets urge court to give little weight to DOJ support for OpenAI in copyright fight
The Justice Department filed a 20-page brief supporting OpenAI’s fair-use defense in the copyright case, saying training large language models on copyrighted text is highly transformative while leaving questions about AI outputs for the court. News outlets asked the court to give that support little weight as the fight continues over how fair use applies to AI.
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News organizations that rely on copyright protections for their work are directly affected by the court fight over fair use in AI, because the case concerns how copyrighted text can be used in model training and what that means for media rights. The filing in support of OpenAI is part of a dispute that could shape how those rights are treated going forward, and the court’s decision is being watched for its wider effect on AI and copyright disputes.
The practical boundary in this case is that the filing treats model training on copyrighted text as highly transformative, while leaving the treatment of AI outputs unresolved. That means the dispute is not just about whether training can occur, but also about what remains open when outputs are examined separately.
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