Copyright Rule Would Ease News Registration as AI Fight Looms

A proposal to ease copyright registration for online news publishers could encourage more outlets to register their work and open the door for more lawsuits as the journalism industry grapples with artificial intelligence companies training models on their content.

The proposed rulemaking from the US Copyright Office would allow publishers with frequently updated news websites to register up to a month’s worth of updates at a time using representative examples, rather than registering individual updates or stories. That would eliminate a “virtual bar” to registration publishers have criticized for more than a decade, which has led many digital outlets to ...