September 1, 2026 filing · publicly reported September 2 · Artificial intelligence / Copyright / Justice Department / Federal litigation position
Justice Department backs OpenAI’s fair-use position on copyrighted-text training in New York Times litigation
The U.S. Justice Department filed a statement of interest in the consolidated OpenAI copyright litigation arguing that training large language models on copyrighted text is generally a highly transformative fair use and warning that an unduly narrow fair-use rule could impair U.S. AI development, scientific progress and national security. The filing supports OpenAI on the training-stage legal question, but it is advisory rather than binding and does not itself decide the lawsuit.
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