DOJ Backs OpenAI in Copyright Battle
The Spin
Anti-Trump narrative
The Trump administration has put its thumb on the scale for Big Tech. Courts, not political appointees, should decide whether AI companies can vacuum up journalism without paying for it. Letting corporations steal creative work at scale and call it innovation sets a dangerous precedent for every writer, artist and publisher in America.
Pro-Trump narrative
Training AI on written works is transformative fair use under well-established copyright law — the DOJ's filing makes clear that forcing licensing requirements would crush competition, entrench legacy media giants and hand foreign adversaries a massive edge. Restricting LLM development under a flawed reading of copyright would stifle the exact creativity the law was designed to protect. Public benefits outweigh any harm to publishers.
