Co-Director Rebecca Tushnet argues that copyright law is ill-suited for settling disputes about generative AI. In a conversation with Harvard Magazine's Olivia Farrar, Tushnet says that fair use is deliberately flexible, and that rejecting it would redirect money toward large copyright owners, rather than individual creators. She concludes: "Even if the big copyright owners give one-time payouts to current authors, their future contracts will not provide for additional payments for AI training or will offer the kind of penny-a-year payments that musicians complain about from Spotify now."
