Tech Group Warns AI Copyright Rules Could Send Innovation Abroad

A trade group including members Apple, Google, and Meta sent comments to the US Copyright Office on Monday warning that measures proposed in its recent inquiry on artificial intelligence policy issues would “handicap” domestic AI development and encourage innovators to take their efforts overseas.

TechNet argued that using copies of copyright-protected material to train AI models doesn’t qualify as the kind of copying that violates copyright law. A statutory licensing scheme to govern machine learning would create an “intractable economic problem” and incentivize technology companies to take their billions of dollars of investment capital to “more innovation friendly” ...