Wikimedia amicus brief says AI training is fair use, but RAG is not
The foundation says model training may be fair use, but RAG systems that reproduce website text should face separate copyright review.
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OpenAI, Microsoft Copyright Feud Spurs Wave Of Amici Briefs
A flurry of proposed friend-of-the-court briefs in the OpenAI copyright multidistrict litigation is urging a New York federal judge to treat model training, the acquisition of copyrighted material, and artificial intelligence-generated answers as distinct acts rather than trying to resolve them under a single fair-use ruling.
Wikimedia amicus brief says AI training is fair use, but RAG is not
The Wikimedia Foundation wants the judge in The New York Times’ copyright fight with OpenAI to split the question in two. Training an AI model on copyrighted work is likely fair use, it argues. A chatbot that copies websites to answer a user’s question is likely not. The foundation runs Wikipedia. On Thursday, it asked […] This story continues at The Next Web
Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that maintains Wikipedia, defended an intermediate position in the judicial dispute between the New York Times and OpenAI on copyright in artificial intelligence training. Read more (10/30/2026)
The Wikimedia Foundation asked the court to distinguish between training AI models with protected works and reproducing web fragments in chatbot responses. Its approach could influence a dispute that confronts The New York Times with OpenAI and Microsoft.
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