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The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a middle path in multiple AI copyright lawsuits in the United States: courts should provide legal protection for LLMs using copyrighted works for training, but should not allow chatbots to output protected works verbatim.
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10/30/2026
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Valid until: 1/28/2027
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