May developers train on copyrighted works without a license?
Whether training on lawfully accessed copyrighted material is fair use (US), a text-and-data-mining exception with or without opt-out (UK/EU), or an act requiring licenses and remuneration, and what developers must disclose about what they trained on.
status: open · opened 2025-01-15
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What has been asked
Confirm training on lawfully accessed works as fair use / TDM exception
Declare, by policy or statute, that training on lawfully accessed copyrighted material is fair use (US) or covered by a broad text-and-data-mining exception (UK/EU), no license, no opt-in.
For · 5
Creative Commons · Google · techUK · OpenAI · Andreessen Horowitz
Against · 5
Motion Picture Association · Creative Rights in AI Coalition · News/Media Alliance · Authors Guild · Copyright Alliance
latest · 2026-03-20 · National Policy Framework for AI includes intellectual property among its seven federal legislative areas
Full record · 14 claimsRequire disclosure of copyrighted works used in training
Oblige developers to tell rights-holders, or the public, which protected works were used to train a model, so licensing and enforcement become possible.
For · 6
News/Media Alliance · Publishers Association · Baroness Beeban Kidron · Authors Guild · Recording Industry Association of America · European creative and cultural sector coalition (40 organisations)
Against · 1
techUK
latest · 2026-03-18 · UK statutory report sets out input/output transparency analysis but announces no immediate legislation
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