Trump administration sides with OpenAI in lawsuit against New York Times
The Trump administration has filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its ongoing copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times and other news organizations, which allege that OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of articles without permission or payment to train AI systems.
Why this matters: The federal government is now picking a side in a fight between publishers and AI companies over who owns the value in published writing. News organizations built that content over decades. OpenAI used it to build a product worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The administration's position is that this is acceptable under copyright law. If that view holds, it means any text that AI companies can reach is essentially fair game. Publishers lose leverage, and the people who created the work get nothing.
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · Compliance · AI governance · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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