Fair use

Evidence (4)

• 8Ars Technica AI·9/17/2026regulation
  Microsoft executive called AI news scraping the largest theft of labor in history

  Unsealed court filings in the copyright dispute between news publishers, Microsoft, and OpenAI reveal internal remarks from Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht. Hecht reportedly described news scraping for AI training as an unprecedented theft of labor and questioned whether the practice could be considered fair use.

• 4Hacker News·9/16/2026open_source
  Negativland’s Culture Jamming and Audio Collage Legacy

  Negativland is an experimental multimedia collective known for sound collage, found-material art, and its coining of the term “culture jamming.” The piece highlights the group’s long-running influence on remix culture, its copyright dispute over a U2 sample, and its ongoing archival and live performance work with the Internet Archive.

• 7Simon Willison·7/20/2026regulation
  Debate Over Fair Use and Qwen 3.8 Max Open Weights

  The article highlights a proposal to change U.S. copyright policy so model training data is explicitly covered by fair use and restrictions on distillation are limited. It also notes Alibaba's release of Qwen 3.8 Max as open weights, alongside commentary on a recent Xi Jinping speech encouraging open source and collaboration.

• 8Hacker News·7/6/2026regulation
  DOJ Pullback on Abbott Case Signals Broader Corporate Enforcement Retreat

  The Justice Department closed a criminal investigation into Abbott Laboratories over contaminated baby formula, after internal disagreement over whether to pursue felony fraud and food-safety charges. The move, along with a higher evidentiary bar for related probes, has reportedly slowed other corporate health-and-safety cases and reflected a broader DOJ pullback in consumer protection enforcement.