[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-us-government-backs-openai-in-ai-copyright-fight":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},6008,"us-government-backs-openai-in-ai-copyright-fight","US Government Backs OpenAI in AI Copyright Fight","A federal brief argues that letting AI labs train on copyrighted material serves US competitiveness, siding with OpenAI over rights holders.","Washington just picked a side in the AI copyright wars, and it is not the copyright holders.\n\nThe US government filed a legal brief backing OpenAI's position that training large language models on copyrighted material should be allowed to continue. The brief argues the country has \"a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally.\" That is a competitiveness argument, not a copyright one. It says nothing about whether the training itself is fair use, only that slowing it down would cost the US its edge.\n\nThat framing matters because it signals how the government wants courts and regulators to weigh AI training disputes going forward: less as a question of what authors and publishers are owed, more as a question of who wins the global AI race. A brief like this does not settle any lawsuit, but it puts the weight of the federal government behind the industry's preferred outcome.\n\nCopyright law was written to balance creators' rights against public benefit, not to rank countries in an AI leaderboard. Framing it that way is a convenient way to avoid answering the harder question of whether scraping copyrighted work without payment was ever fair use to begin with.","[\"openai\",\"copyright\",\"ai policy\",\"llm training\"]","2026-09-02T17:09:06.000Z","2026-09-02T17:56:16.371Z","2026-09-02T17:56:28.291Z","published",null,[],"policy",[26,27,28,29],"openai","copyright","ai policy","llm training",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"TechCrunch","https:\u002F\u002Ftechcrunch.com\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F02\u002Fu-s-government-sides-with-openai-on-issue-of-training-llms-on-copyrighted-material\u002F",0,{"sections":36},[37,42,47,51,56,61,66,71,76,81,86,91,96,101],{"name":38,"slug":39,"count":40,"latest_published_at":41},"AI","ai",3385,"2026-09-04T22:17:36.000Z",{"name":43,"slug":44,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"Security","security",565,"2026-09-05T00:03:08.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":24,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Policy",300,"2026-09-04T22:18:34.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Hardware","hardware",152,"2026-09-03T09:26:48.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",97,"2026-09-04T15:29:18.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Science","science",96,"2026-09-03T22:30:00.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Software","software",73,"2026-08-18T07:51:50.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",69,"2026-08-18T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Startups","startups",54,"2026-09-04T23:36:14.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"General","general",37,"2026-09-04T20:22:41.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]