Fair use benefits everyone

Fair use is a longstanding legal principle that permits using copyrighted material for new purposes without permission, and various experts, organizations, and leaders are publicly supporting its application to AI training. A lawsuit is challenging whether AI companies can use copyrighted works to train their systems under fair use protections. Supporters of fair use argue that using works for AI training is transformative because it creates new tools rather than substituting for the original works, and that restricting fair use would harm innovation across medicine, science, accessibility, and creative fields. The debate centers on whether fair use should protect AI training as it has protected other forms of innovation for decades.