AI engineering glossary · AI ethics law product
What is fair use?
Fair use: A US legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission depending on factors such as purpose, amount used and effect on the market for the original. Whether AI training qualifies is being argued in courts and is not settled.
Fair use: an example
A company argues that copying millions of web pages to train a model is fair use, while the authors argue it harms the market for their work.
Related terms
- Copyright and AI training data
- Text and data mining exception
- Data licensing
- Open-source license
More AI ethics law product terms
- Fairlearn
- Fairness impossibility theorem
- Fairness metric
- Fairness through unawareness
- Fallback behavior
- Federated learning
- Four-fifths rule
- GDPR
Where you learn it
Fair use is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.