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AIHOT · Published October 30, 2026 at 17:00

Wikimedia has submitted an amicus curiae brief in an AI copyright lawsuit, arguing for a distinction between training and output.

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The Wikimedia Foundation has submitted an amicus curiae brief in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright. The foundation argues that web scraping and training large language models (LLMs) with copyrighted works should qualify as fair use, but that generating content for users that substitutes the original work requires authorization.

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