{"id":45546,"date":"2025-06-26T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalcontentnext.org\/?p=45546"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:09:29","slug":"times-up-for-platform-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalcontentnext.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/26\/times-up-for-platform-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Time\u2019s up for platform privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff shariff-align-flex-start shariff-widget-align-flex-start\"><ul class=\"shariff-buttons theme-round orientation-horizontal buttonsize-medium\"><li class=\"shariff-button twitter shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#595959\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcontentnext.org%2Fblog%2F2025%2F06%2F26%2Ftimes-up-for-platform-privilege%2F&text=Time%E2%80%99s%20up%20for%20platform%20privilege&via=DCNorg\" title=\"Share on X\" aria-label=\"Share on X\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\"; background-color:#000; color:#fff\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"shariff-icon\" style=\"\"><svg width=\"32px\" height=\"20px\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path fill=\"#000\" d=\"M14.258 10.152L23.176 0h-2.113l-7.747 8.813L7.133 0H0l9.352 13.328L0 23.973h2.113l8.176-9.309 6.531 9.309h7.133zm-2.895 3.293l-.949-1.328L2.875 1.56h3.246l6.086 8.523.945 1.328 7.91 11.078h-3.246zm0 0\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"shariff-button linkedin shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#1488bf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcontentnext.org%2Fblog%2F2025%2F06%2F26%2Ftimes-up-for-platform-privilege%2F\" title=\"Share on LinkedIn\" aria-label=\"Share on LinkedIn\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\"; background-color:#0077b5; color:#fff\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"shariff-icon\" style=\"\"><svg width=\"32px\" height=\"20px\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 27 32\"><path fill=\"#0077b5\" d=\"M6.2 11.2v17.7h-5.9v-17.7h5.9zM6.6 5.7q0 1.3-0.9 2.2t-2.4 0.9h0q-1.5 0-2.4-0.9t-0.9-2.2 0.9-2.2 2.4-0.9 2.4 0.9 0.9 2.2zM27.4 18.7v10.1h-5.9v-9.5q0-1.9-0.7-2.9t-2.3-1.1q-1.1 0-1.9 0.6t-1.2 1.5q-0.2 0.5-0.2 1.4v9.9h-5.9q0-7.1 0-11.6t0-5.3l0-0.9h5.9v2.6h0q0.4-0.6 0.7-1t1-0.9 1.6-0.8 2-0.3q3 0 4.9 2t1.9 6z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"shariff-button mastodon shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#563ACC\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s2f.kytta.dev\/?text=Time%E2%80%99s%20up%20for%20platform%20privilege https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcontentnext.org%2Fblog%2F2025%2F06%2F26%2Ftimes-up-for-platform-privilege%2F\" title=\"Share on Mastodon\" aria-label=\"Share on Mastodon\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\"; background-color:#6364FF; color:#fff\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"shariff-icon\" style=\"\"><svg width=\"75\" height=\"79\" viewBox=\"0 0 75 79\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M37.813-.025C32.462-.058 27.114.13 21.79.598c-8.544.621-17.214 5.58-20.203 13.931C-1.12 23.318.408 32.622.465 41.65c.375 7.316.943 14.78 3.392 21.73 4.365 9.465 14.781 14.537 24.782 15.385 7.64.698 15.761-.213 22.517-4.026a54.1 54.1 0 0 0 .01-6.232c-6.855 1.316-14.101 2.609-21.049 1.074-3.883-.88-6.876-4.237-7.25-8.215-1.53-3.988 3.78-.43 5.584-.883 9.048 1.224 18.282.776 27.303-.462 7.044-.837 14.26-4.788 16.65-11.833 2.263-6.135 1.215-12.79 1.698-19.177.06-3.84.09-7.692-.262-11.52C72.596 7.844 63.223.981 53.834.684a219.453 219.453 0 0 0-16.022-.71zm11.294 12.882c5.5-.067 10.801 4.143 11.67 9.653.338 1.48.471 3 .471 4.515v21.088h-8.357c-.07-7.588.153-15.182-.131-22.765-.587-4.368-7.04-5.747-9.672-2.397-2.422 3.04-1.47 7.155-1.67 10.735v6.392h-8.307c-.146-4.996.359-10.045-.404-15.002-1.108-4.218-7.809-5.565-10.094-1.666-1.685 3.046-.712 6.634-.976 9.936v14.767h-8.354c.109-8.165-.238-16.344.215-24.5.674-5.346 5.095-10.389 10.676-10.627 4.902-.739 10.103 2.038 12.053 6.631.375 1.435 1.76 1.932 1.994.084 1.844-3.704 5.501-6.739 9.785-6.771.367-.044.735-.068 1.101-.073z\"\/><defs><linearGradient id=\"paint0_linear_549_34\" x1=\"37.0692\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"37.0692\" y2=\"79\" gradientUnits=\"userSpaceOnUse\"><stop stop-color=\"#6364FF\"\/><stop offset=\"1\" stop-color=\"#563ACC\"\/><\/linearGradient><\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Just as a leopard doesn\u2019t change its spots, Google and Meta haven\u2019t changed their ways. Despite mounting legal threats and public backlash, both big tech platforms continue to behave as if rules don\u2019t apply to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New evidence has emerged to underscore that Google\u2019s original unofficial motto of \u201cDon\u2019t be evil\u201d was never really their true North Star. Instead, it is a smokescreen for big tech\u2019s naked ambitions. Meta\u2019s early motto\u2014\u201cMove fast and break things\u201d\u2014may have been more honest, but the honesty makes it even more damning. As it turns out, the broken things weren\u2019t just outdated norms or sluggish competitors. They were the foundations of fair competition, user privacy, democratic discourse, and now, copyright law. The damage isn\u2019t merely collateral; it is strategic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-big-tech-s-anticompetitive-behavior-enters-its-ai-era\">Big tech&#8217;s anticompetitive behavior enters its AI era<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we\u2019re seeing a similar pattern unfold with generative AI. In <em>Kadrey v. Meta<\/em>, evidence unsealed early this year suggests Meta execs, including Mark Zuckerberg, chose to pirate copyrighted content to train its LLaMA AI model. It was revealed that Meta initially explored licensing but opted instead to download pirated content via BitTorrent from LibGen under the reasoning that doing things the legal way would take too much time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse, the company allegedly stripped copyright management info from the files to cover its tracks. Clearly, they\u2019re following the motto of moving fast and breaking things. This time around, they seem intent on breaking copyright law. Given Meta\u2019s long track record, I\u2019m not sure what is most surprising: the planning of such a sophisticated heist or the ham-handed cover up. Either way, they graciously documented it all in email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, over in Mountain View, Google has once again leveraged its search dominance to take traffic and revenue from publishers. In May, Google launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/659448\/google-ai-mode-search-public-test-us\">AI Mode<\/a>, which scrapes and summarizes publishers\u2019 original content to give users the answer without needing to click through thereby extracting out all of the incentives for the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a bit of stunning bravado, Google rolled out AI Mode just 48 hours before closing arguments in the remedies phase of the Google Search trial, where the evidence clearly shows that Google abused its market power in search to maintain its significant advantages in crawling, clicks and query data which are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/04\/29\/nx-s1-5377353\/google-antitrust-remedies-trial-ai\">paramount to the AI era<\/a>. Google claims publishers can opt out. However, they can only do so by removing themselves from search entirely\u2013which is no choice at all when it involves a company with more than 95% of the mobile queries. Google\u2019s unauthorized use of copyrighted content to create a substitutive product has, to no one\u2019s surprise, led to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/google-ai-news-publishers-7e687141?st=LyHydS&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">massive downturn in traffic<\/a> to publisher sites. Simultaneously, Google announced that Gemini will soon be on by default for consumers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/upcoming-gemini-for-android-change-sparks-major-privacy-concerns\/\">collecting data about their activities<\/a>. This is an <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcontentnext.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/21\/google-data-collection-research\/\">oft-used strategy by Google<\/a>. They tune the defaults to maximum data collection, knowing full well that consumers won\u2019t know or take the time to shut them off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-courts-push-back\">The courts push back<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>However, despite big tech\u2019s brazen and predictable pattern of brutish behavior, <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcontentnext.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/27\/the-ai-reckoning-for-publishers-and-platforms\">the legal system may be starting to catch up<\/a> with the platforms&#8217; anticompetitive tactics. Google has been found guilty of violating antitrust law in both the search and ad tech markets. And at least in the search case, the Court has been very focused on ensuring AI is a competitive marketplace rather than the fruit of more Google abuses. In addition, we\u2019re starting to get additional clarity on how copyright law applies in this new digital age of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence<\/em>, U.S. District Court Judge Stephanos Bibas ruled that Ross infringed copyright by using Westlaw\u2019s headnotes to train an AI competitor, despite Ross\u2019 claims of fair use. Initially, Ross reached out to Thomson Reuters to license the content but ultimately opted to acquire the Westlaw content from a third party, LegalEase (which sounds eerily similar to Kadrey v Meta).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Bibas rejected all of Ross\u2019 defenses, stating that innocent infringement, copyright misuse, merger defense, <em>scenes \u00e0 faire<\/em> defense, and fair use did not apply. On fair use, Judge Bibas eloquently analyzed the four established factors: the use\u2019s purpose and character; the copyrighted work\u2019s nature; how much of the work was used and how substantial a part it was relative to the copyrighted work\u2019s whole; and how Ross\u2019s use affected the copyrighted work\u2019s value or potential market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the fourth factor, Judge Bibas found that Ross \u201cmeant to compete with Westlaw by developing a market substitute.\u201d He wrote that this factor is \u201cundoubtedly the single most important element of fair use.\u201d That seems like an important ruling in light of the way Google\u2019s AI Mode trains on and serves as a substitute for publisher\u2019s original content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April, U.S. District Court Judge Sidney <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2025\/04\/judge-doesnt-buy-openai-argument-nyts-own-reporting-weakens-copyright-suit\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Stein rejected OpenAI and Microsoft\u2019s motion to dismiss<\/a>, thereby allowing all of the copyright and trademark dilution clams from The New York Times\u2019 suit to proceed. While the bar is admittedly lower for a motion to dismiss, Judge Stein noted \u201cthat plaintiffs have plausibly alleged the existence of third-party end-user infringement and that defendants knew or had reason to know of that infringement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, in May, the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/policy\/artificial-intelligence\/\">Copyright Office released a report on AI training and fair use<\/a>. It concluded that using massive troves of copyrighted content to generate commercial AI outputs likely fails fair use, especially when done through illegal means. The report also notes that \u201ceffective licensing options can ensure that innovation continues to advance without undermining intellectual property rights.\u201d The Copyright Office rightly recognized that creative works are not mere \u201cdata\u201d to be harvested, but expressions of human authorship protected by the Constitution and enshrined in U.S. copyright law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-from-slogans-to-standards\">From slogans to standards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what does this mean? For one, courts are rejecting the Silicon Valley myth that fair use lets AI companies take whatever they want. Licensing isn\u2019t just viable, it\u2019s required. Congress should pay attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although there will inevitably be bumps along the road as fair use analysis is unique to each case, these rulings act as a compass to where things are headed. They send important signals to big tech companies with a history of anticompetitive behavior: don\u2019t be evil or you may be held liable. The old playbook\u2014take first, ask questions never\u2014isn\u2019t going to work in this new AI era. 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