DOJ tells OpenAI court that training on books is fair use
The brief landed without input from the Copyright Office or Patent Office, breaking from DOJ's usual practice of consulting both.
Here's the part worth sitting with: the Department of Justice just told a federal court that training AI on your books isn't infringement, and it did so without even looping in the Copyright Office. That's not a technicality — it's the government picking a side in your case before a judge has ruled on it. Microsoft's already filed its own summary judgment motion in the same litigation, so this fight is accelerating, not cooling off.
Why it matters to you: If the court credits DOJ's fair-use argument, it could shape how every pending author and publisher AI-infringement case against OpenAI gets decided.
This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Sat, Oct 3 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 62/100 (Tailwinds building).
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