OpenAI has published excerpts from filings supporting fair use for training on copyrighted works. The material sets out the company's arguments as part of the copyright case brought by The New York Times.
The excerpts focus on fair use, the doctrine at issue in the dispute over whether training on copyrighted works is permitted. The filings argue the position in support of that defense.
The public legal messaging is becoming part of platform strategy as courts weigh market harm, transformation and licensing alternatives. Those three factors are the terms on which the fair use question is being contested, and the published excerpts put OpenAI's arguments on them into public view.