OpenAI Touts Briefs Backing Fair Use for AI Training

PPC Land reports that the October 30 post also accused The New York Times of pursuing "an undeserved payday" in the copyright case the newspaper filed against it in December 2023.[2]According to CellCog, October 30 was the deadline for amicus briefs in the consolidated case before Judge Sidney Stein in New York[3]. The same outlet reports that summary judgment replies are due November 20, 2026; no hearing or ruling date has been set.[3]IPWatchdog reports that Public Knowledge argued "copyright is not a general remedy for technological disruption or a means for reallocating the gains from a new technology"[1]. The outlet adds that Authors Alliance asked the court to rule that "aggregate competitive pressure from noninfringing outputs" does not qualify as cognizable market harm[1].LavX News reports that the US government argued the Times' position would "severely hamper the Progress of Science and useful Arts"[4].PPC Land notes that OpenAI's post does not mention any filed in support of the news plaintiffs.[2] Techdirt's tally of proposed briefs lists 22 for defendants · 26 for plaintiffs · 4 neither/mixed[5].According to PPC Land, the Wikimedia Foundation's neutral filing agrees that training the models behind ChatGPT was likely fair use, but argues that the chatbot's practice of fetching web pages and reproducing them in its answers likely is not.[2]