Fair use benefits everyone

The article argues that fair use has been crucial for decades in driving innovation, medical breakthroughs, and new technologies that benefit everyone, including authors and journalists. It criticizes The New York Times' lawsuit for asking the court to ignore half a century of legal history and narrow the fair use doctrine in pursuit of an undeserved payday. Experts and leaders from various fields have filed briefs supporting fair use, emphasizing that AI training uses copyrighted works for a fundamentally different purpose, does not substitute for the original works, and does not cause market harm. They argue that restricting fair use would hinder AI progress, medical research, education, accessibility, and independent creators. The article includes excerpts from amicus briefs filed by organizations and individuals such as the American Council of the Blind, Authors Alliance, Engine and Developers Alliance, Foundation for American Innovation, Professor Joshua S. Gans, author Kevin Kelly, Professor Matthew Sag, musician Michael Wall and comedian Sarah Rose Siskind, Public Knowledge, Ron Suskind and Professor Brian L. Frye, and the United States Government, all supporting the position that training AI models on copyrighted works is fair use.

(Source：OpenAI)