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AI Progress this week launched a new education campaign highlighting how fair use — a longstanding, foundational principle of U.S. copyright law — drives American innovation and competitiveness.

The fair use doctrine is an enduring legal framework that protects intellectual property and drives innovation, enabling access to diverse materials for training AI models.

AI Progress released a report, AI Models: Addressing Misconceptions About Training and Copyright, which sets the record straight on how AI models learn, what U.S. copyright law protects, and why training AI models on copyrighted works is consistent with decades of legal precedent under the fair use doctrine.

As debates over artificial intelligence intensify, critics are questioning whether training large language models (LLMs) on data violates U.S. copyright law. But legal precedent — and a closer look at how these models actually work — tells a different story.