Wikimedia warns a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-30
The Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus brief in the landmark AI copyright lawsuits between publishers (including The New York Times) and OpenAI/Microsoft, taking neither side.
It urges courts to legally protect LLM training on copyrighted work while opposing chatbots that regurgitate that work verbatim. Wikimedia argues an overly black-and-white ruling could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI tools or endanger the open web, making the brief a bellwether for the legal boundaries of generative AI training data.
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