Trump administration backs OpenAI in NYT copyright lawsuit with fair-use argument
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-09-03
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, backing the AI lab's fair-use argument.
Key facts:
- The landmark suit, filed December 2023, alleges OpenAI unlawfully trained on NYT articles and seeks 'billions of dollars' in damages from both OpenAI and Microsoft
- The administration argues the NYT 'seeks to narrow fair-use doctrine to exclude the training of OpenAI's large language models'
- The formal intervention could shape the legal trajectory of copyright and AI training
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