In a Washington Times opinion piece, Matt Sandgren argues that Congress does not need to choose between fostering AI innovation and protecting copyright, calling for lawmakers to modernize copyright law rather than let it be overrun by generative AI. He cites the late Senator Orrin Hatch’s approach to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as a model for balancing new technology with incentives for creators, and contends that AI-generated content and models trained on copyrighted material require updated legal protections and fair compensation for creators.
