US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired

The released draft report seems merely to be a litany of copyright holder complaints repeated verbatim, with little depth of reasoning to support the conclusions it makes.

Not only does it read like a litany[0]. It seems like the copyright holders are not happy with how the meta case is working through court and are trying to sidestep fair use entirely.

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...

Copywriter holders have always hated fair use, and often like to pretend it doesn’t exist.

The average copywrite holder would like you to think that the law only allows use of their works in ways that they specifically permit, i.e. that which is not explicitly permitted is forbidden.

But the law is largely the reverse; it only denies use of copyright works in certain ways. That which is not specifically forbidden is permitted.

That used to be how it worked. Then the DMCA 1201 provisions arrived and so now anything not expressly permitted by the enumerated exceptions is forbidden. Even talking about how it works is punishable as a felony (upheld by SCOTUS in like 2000 or 2001, they basically said the Copyright clause is in the constitution so the government can censor information on how to defeat DRM).