Jacob Ward
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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But then everything went sideways.
The judge basically changed his mind and we wound up in this world in which huge amounts of books, millions and millions of books are scanned in every year.
And now AI makers are more and more feeling entitled to go ahead and scan those kinds of things in.
The Trump administration has been hearing, in fact, recently from OpenAI, Google, and others that they should just be allowed to just run roughshod over copyright law entirely and just feed copyrighted works into training their AI systems in order to keep up with China.
And I would bet that number one in Trump's ear about this is Elon Musk.
Last month in April, he responded to a post on X by Jack Dorsey, the original founder of Twitter, who said, And Elon Musk said, These are guys who have been arguing for a long time that because they want to be able to feed as much as they can into these AI systems to make them better and better at what they do, they shouldn't have to obey intellectual property laws or copyright laws.
They should just run right through them.
And OpenAI and Google have both submitted big policy proposals to the Trump administration saying this is what the rules should be in the interest of giving us the shot at being technologically superior to China.
You should allow us to just, you know, run seam roller right over this kind of stuff.
But here's why this is such an important thing with the Copyright Office.
The Copyright Office released this report in which they said, actually, we're not so sure that this kind of fair use argument holds water anymore.
So, you know, once upon a time, right, they argued, you know, academic use of AI to rapidly read and synthesize copyrighted works the way that Google Books does.
Maybe that's OK.
Right.
That could be fine.
But, they said, to create new interoperable works using images or sound recordings to train a model that generates similar expressive outputs doesn't merely remove a technical barrier to productive competition.
Stay with me here.
In such cases, unless the original work itself is being targeted for comment or parody, it is hard to see the use as transformative.
Basically, what they're saying is, if you pull in the copyrighted works of a famous author, let's say J.K.
Rowling, right?
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