Publishers Argue AI Firms Should Pay for Content as Copyright Case Advances
A host of copyright infringement lawsuits filed by news organizations against the ChatGPT developer OpenAI are heading toward a new phase, and the Trump administration’s intervention is raising the question of just how costly it would be for AI companies to pay to license the content their models are trained on.
The cases include those filed by The New York Times and by Ziff Davis, which owns CNET. The parties filed briefings this month asking a federal court to rule on a handful of issues, namely whether OpenAI’s use of the published material constituted fair use under US copyright law.
But a statement of interest from the federal government, saying that licensing barriers would burden AI companies, drew a rebuke out of court from Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah. Writing in Fortune, Shah compared the total value of royalties and licensing payments in the US music industry —...
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