Stanford NLP resurfaces Jurafsky & Liang's 'Foundation Models and Fair Use' paper

stanfordnlp · x · 2026-11-06

Stanford NLP retweets the JMLR paper "Foundation Models and Fair Use" by Henderson, Li, Jurafsky, Hashimoto, Lemley and Percy Liang. The paper analyzes fair use for foundation model training data, including code: verbatim copying of large code portions is unlikely fair use, algorithms and other non-literal elements fall outside copyright, and sufficiently transformative use may qualify — a canonical legal reference for AI copyright debates.

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