aceTo preserve the free press, courts must protect copyright
The unrestricted use of artificial intelligence has endangered the rules of copyright and threatened America's access to reliable, high-quality journalism. Judges have a chance to stop it. From our country’s beginning, the Founders recognized that American democracy would rely upon a flourishing independent press. The Constitution protects a free press through the First Amendment, of course, but also through a less celebrated provision
The News/Media Alliance's president argues that ChatGPT's real-time answers substitute for visits to news sites, cutting publishers' subscription and advertising revenue.
The piece is an opinion column by the head of a publishers' trade group that filed an amicus brief in the cases, and the claimed revenue losses and legal conclusions are asserted without figures or a court ruling.
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- JournalismCharleston Post and Courier2026-11-04
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