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AI Exposes Flaws in Copyright’s Focus on Transformativeness in Fair Use

Shishene Jing argues that the fair use doctrine's central question—whether a use is sufficiently transformative to avoid licensing requirements—breaks down when applied to AI. Transformativeness worked as a test because transformative uses rarely competed financially with the originals. AI training severs that relationship, as it is both the most transformative use of copyrighted material and the use best equipped to displace their markets.

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