The White House Let Courts Decide AI Copyright. Nobody Agreed on What That Means.

The White House framework's Section III is short enough to fit in a tweet and contested enough to anchor a semester of law school debate. By declining to codify fair use protection for AI training in statute — and instead directing Congress to "leave fair use to the courts" ^[6] — the administration produced a document that IP advocates and creator communities each claimed as a victory within hours of its release. That simultaneous adoption is not a sign of the framework's success. It is a sign that the document…