{"id":32967,"date":"2026-09-02T18:58:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32967"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:58:04","slug":"let-openai-rip-off-the-intercepts-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32967","title":{"rendered":"Let OpenAI Rip Off The Intercept\u2019s Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-underline\">President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/span> Justice Department took the side of tech giant OpenAI in its court battle with The Intercept and other media companies over the company\u2019s use of others\u2019 creative work to train its artificial intelligence tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a federal court filing in New York, the Justice Department argued that the U.S. has a vested interest in OpenAI having access to a vast array of intellectual property. The Trump administration warned that restricting OpenAI\u2019s access to the data could hamper scientific progress and harm the country\u2019s dominance in the race for artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally,\u201d said the filing, which was signed by associate attorneys general Stanley Woodward Jr. and Brett Shumate, along with the attorney general\u2019s senior counsel Michael Weisbuch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-block-document mb-5\" height=\"450\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28594932-trump-department-of-justice-briefing-in-support-of-openai-in-intercept-copyright-case\/?embed=1&amp;title=1\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt Topic, the litigating attorney representing The Intercept in its lawsuit, warned that the Trump administration\u2019s position was out of touch and a threat to the financial survival of media outlets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is pretty reflective of the administration\u2019s pro-AI policies, which are out of step with the public skepticism of AI and out of step with our long tradition in this country of protecting human expression,\u201d said Topic. \u201cIf the administration\u2019s position was accepted, it would result in an unprecedented, uncompensated transfer of IP rights from news organizations to tech companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf the administration\u2019s position was accepted, it would result in an unprecedented, uncompensated transfer of IP rights from news organizations to tech companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Intercept originally filed its <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nysd.616536\/gov.uscourts.nysd.616536.1.0_1.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a> against OpenAI and its <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/04\/10\/microsoft-openai-dalle-ai-military-use\/\">partner<\/a> Microsoft in February 2024, arguing that OpenAI\u2019s use of work reported and written by its journalists constituted a breach of copyright law. In November 2024, the judge then presiding over the case dismissed all of The Intercept\u2019s claims against Microsoft, but allowed its claim against OpenAI to proceed under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Intercept\u2019s case was later consolidated under U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein alongside a number of other media plaintiffs, including the New York Times, Tribune Media Company, and Reuters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-embed flex-col items-center print:hidden\" id=\"third-party--article-mid\" data-module=\"InlineNewsletter\" data-module-source=\"web_intercept_20241230_Inline_Signup_Replacement\">\n<div class=\"-mx-5 sm:-mx-10 p-5 sm:px-10 xl:-ml-5 lg:mr-0 xl:px-5 bg-accentLight hidden\" data-name=\"subscribed\">\n<h2 class=\"font-sans font-light uppercase text-[30px] leading-8 text-white tracking-[0.01em] mb-0\">\n      We\u2019re independent of corporate interests \u2014 and powered by members. 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OpenAI\u2019s use of the material, the government argued, met the criteria for \u201ctransformative\u201d use, one of the ways in which \u201cfair use\u201d comes into play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn this litigation, the New York Times seeks to narrow fair-use doctrine to exclude the training of OpenAI\u2019s large language models (LLMs). That result would be inconsistent with basic copyright law principles and severely hamper \u2018the Progress of Science and useful Arts,\u2019\u201d the filing says. \u201cAn erroneous fair use ruling would hamper competition in the market for LLMs, because only the largest technology companies might have the capital necessary to pay licensing fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The filing is the latest move from the Trump administration to protect the interests of U.S.-based artificial intelligence companies amid an <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/08\/26\/ai-drone-warfare-russia-ukraine-openai-anthropic\/\">AI arms race<\/a> with companies based in other countries, most notably <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2026\/08\/23\/trump-china-ai-chips-rare-earth\/\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December 2025, Trump signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/12\/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy\/\">executive order<\/a> aimed at creating a federal standard, applicable in all 50 states, to \u201censure that the United States wins the AI race, as we must.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Topic, The Intercept\u2019s attorney, said this position \u2014 combined with the fact that the Justice Department has not been privy to any discovery in the case \u2014 shows that the Trump administration is operating from a fixed position in support of tech companies, rather than arguing the merits of the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat they\u2019re saying isn\u2019t based on any understanding of actual facts,\u201d Topic said. \u201cIt just reflects what Microsoft\u2019s and OpenAI\u2019s PR machines have been putting out into the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#OpenAI #Rip #Intercepts #Articles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s Justi&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[246],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}