Justice Department sides with OpenAI in publishers’ copyright fight

The Justice Department filed a statement of interest backing OpenAI’s fair use defence in the consolidated publisher copyright cases, arguing that licensing costs would threaten national security. EU law has no fair use doctrine, and the AI Act applies its copyright obligations to any provider placing a model on the Union market wherever training occurred.

The US government has told a New York court that training AI models on publishers’ work is fair use. The Justice Department filed on Tuesday, CNET reported.

The argument offered is national security. Rules that make a robust American AI industry harder to build “threaten national security and give a competitive advantage to foreign adversaries who are not so encumbered“, the filing says.

It goes further. The statement of interest also argues that licensing costs would hand the largest technology companies an oligopoly on model training.

The New York Times rejects that....

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