美国政府支持OpenAI在纽约时报版权诉讼中的立场

September 3, 2026 US government sides with OpenAI in New York Times copyright lawsuit edited by Andrew Zinin Andrew Zinin Chief Editor Meet our editorial team Behind our editorial process Editors' notes This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: fact-checked reputable news agency proofread The GIST Add as preferred source OpenAI founder Sam Altman at a G20 meeting in North Carolina. U.S. President Donald Trump's administration sided with OpenAI in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times, defending training AI models on copyrighted works, according to a court document filed Tuesday. In late 2023, The New York Times sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, its main investor, alleging that the companies' powerful artificial intelligence models used millions of articles for training without permission. Copyright has been a major battleground for the generative AI sector, with publishers, musicians and artists lawyering up or cutting deals to get paid for technology that is being built with their content. The Justice Department said in a 20-page document that the "creative possibilities and public benefits that (large language model) training advances far outweigh any competitive harm." "Constraining LLM development under a misunderstanding of fair use doctrine would thwart such creative and scientific progress while hindering American prosperity and economic mobility," the document read. The Justice Department added that The New York Times' interpretation of the law would create an anticompetitive entry barrier that "functions primarily as large subsidies for old mainstream media companies." Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said Wednesday that Trump has made clear that "AI dominance is critical" to national security, prosperity and economic mobility. "This Administration will never let our Nation be at a disadvantage relative to our foreign adversaries based on a plainly incorrect understanding of copyright law," Woodward wrote on X. The New York Times' lawsuit partly hinges on the limited "fair use" exception, which permits copyrighted work to be used without the rights holders' consent. The Justice Department argued that the training of AI models on written works is "exceedingly transformative," allowing it to benefit from the exception. Graham James, a spokesman for The New York Times, told U.S. media that the Justice Department was siding with "trillion-dollar AI companies" at the expense of American creators. "The administration's proposal to let companies take that content without permission or compensation would undermine the sustainability of the human-created content that a healthy society depends on, and which AI needs to function," James said in a statement. In July, a U.S. judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and several authors who claimed the San Francisco company illegally copied their work to train its AI model, Claude. It was a partial victory for Anthropic—a judge ruled that the company's use of books to train Claude was transformative enough to constitute "fair use" under U.S. law, but that other uses of pirated materials were not. In May, multiple publishers, including Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and Turow, sued Meta in a New York court for allegedly stealing copyrighted content. Key concepts AI copyright lawLarge language models Who's behind this story? Andrew Zinin Master's in physics with research experience. Long-time science news enthusiast. Plays key role in Science X's editorial success. 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