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Engadget · October 30, 2026 · On the brief until November 13, 2026

The Wikimedia Foundation weighs in on the NYT's case against OpenAI

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Training large language models on scraped articles and retrieving external text

The Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus brief in the copyright lawsuit between The New York Times, OpenAI, and Microsoft. The brief asks the court to permit fair use for specific training and retrieval tasks while banning models that reproduce articles without attribution. The filing gives practitioners a middle position between blanket fair use and strict content restrictions.

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Students can evaluate whether using copyrighted news to train a large language model produces something different enough from the original source to count as fair use.

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