Hollywood has publicly backed The New York Times in its copyright battle with OpenAI and Microsoft, adding weight from the entertainment industry to a dispute over how AI companies use published content.
Copyright dispute · AI training data
Hollywood backs The New York Times in its AI copyright fight
Entertainment industry support adds weight to a case over whether AI companies can train on published content without licensing it.
How the dispute is structured
Step 1
Publisher claims
The New York Times says its journalism was used without permission.
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Step 2
Defendants respond
OpenAI and Microsoft typically rely on fair use arguments.
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Step 3
Court decides
Courts have not yet settled these questions for large language models.
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Step 4
Industry adjusts
Outcome may shape licensing deals and how training data is sourced.
Rights holders argue
Unlicensed use of creative works for commercial AI products undermines the market for original content.
Studios, writers, and other rights holders face the same underlying question about ingestion without licensing.
Defendants argue
Training is transformative, and outputs do not substitute for the original works.
Fair use is the central defense in cases like this one.
Why it matters
The ruling could set the legal boundary for training generative AI on copyrighted material.
If courts side with publishers
AI companies may face pressure to negotiate licensing deals or change how they source training data.
If courts side with defendants
The ruling could strengthen the case that large-scale training on public or licensed material is lawful.
Still open: The precise form of Hollywood's backing, including whether it involves formal filings or a specific group of organizations, is not yet detailed. Treat the scope of that involvement as preliminary.
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