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The US Department of Justice has filed a brief supporting the classification of AI model training on copyrighted text as fair use in litigation involving OpenAI.
A favorable ruling would legally cement the right of compute providers to ingest vast datasets without licensing fees, protecting the economics of large scale AI training runs.
Trade pressSlicast · September 3, 2026 · US · Source: Seeking Alpha
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The US Department of Justice filed a brief supporting OpenAI's position that training AI models on copyrighted text constitutes fair use. This legal stance aims to protect the economic model of large-scale AI development by allowing compute providers to ingest vast datasets without licensing fees.
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