OpenAI has published excerpts from court briefs filed by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts supporting fair use in AI training. The filings respond to The New York Times' lawsuit, which OpenAI argues asks courts to "ignore a half century of legal history" and abandon established fair use principles.
The American Council of the Blind, Association of Research Libraries, and other groups emphasize that fair use enables transformative technologies benefiting medical researchers, educators, people with disabilities, farmers, and independent creators. They warn restrictions would harm both AI developers and users who rely on open-source systems.
The Authors Alliance challenges the "market dilution" theory, arguing copyright law has never protected rightsholders against competitive pressure from non-infringing works. They urge the court to maintain the distinction between substitution of protected expression and lawful competition.
Engine and Developers Alliance highlights startups' use of foundation models as evidence that training on copyrighted works constitutes fair use, not infringement, enabling transformative innovation across sectors.
Source: OpenAI Blog · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing