An advocacy group backed by Big Tech companies pressed the Trump administration to intervene in copyright class actions in support of arguments that training AI models on protected works is fair use.
The Chamber of Progress asked President Donald Trump to issue an executive order directing the Department of Justice and Department of Commerce to challenge the certification of large plaintiff classes in generative AI copyright cases and to argue against “heavily compounded” statutory damages.
The push comes in a public comment in response to a request for information on AI innovation from the US Office of Science and Technology ...