{
  "id": 28609,
  "title": "Assessing the feasibility of collective licensing of in-copyright works as training data for generative AI systems",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/20/assessing-the-feasibility-of-collective-licensing-of-in-copyright",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-07-20T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PNAS",
    "slug": "pnas",
    "url": "https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2509769122?af=R"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 30, July 2026. Copyright owners have sued several developers of large-scale generative AI systems for copyright infringement because of their uses of massive quantities of in-copyright works as training data for building AI models. Fair use will be the main defense ...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}