"A group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, has asked the Justice Department and the White House to stop protecting Big Tech against copyright claims. In a letter [PDF] addressed to US Attorney General Pam Bondi and Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, more than a dozen leaders of conservative organizations urge the government to reject calls to change copyright law to accommodate AI companies."
"The signatories argue that supporting the tech industry's effort to reform copyright law would harm American workers, contradict the Trump administration's AI and trade policy, dilute US soft power, and encourage economic espionage by China. "Opponents of applying copyright law to AI make a series of flawed claims in an effort to cut corners," the letter says. "One is that competition with China requires the US to abandon its commitment to strong IP protections.""
"The authors contend that weakening IP rights domestically will allow China and other adversaries "to avail themselves of the same dubious 'fair use' theories to not only steal creative content, but also proprietary US AI models and algorithms." Prior to the debut of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022, legal scholars voiced support for the tech industry's view that training AI models on copyrighted content qualified for the fair use defense against infringement claims."
A group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's movement, including Steve Bannon, asked the Justice Department and White House to stop protecting Big Tech from copyright claims. Signatories addressed a letter to US Attorney General Pam Bondi and Michael Kratsios urging rejection of proposals to change copyright law to accommodate AI companies. The group argued that altering copyright protections would harm American workers, contradict Trump administration AI and trade policy, dilute US soft power, and encourage economic espionage by China. The letter called opponents' claims flawed and rejected the idea that competition with China requires abandoning strong IP protections. The authors warned that weakening IP rights would allow adversaries to exploit "fair use" theories to steal creative content and proprietary US AI models. Prior to ChatGPT, some legal scholars argued that training AI on copyrighted material could be defended as fair use, which requires analysis of four statutory factors.
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