The aff strengthens copyright protections.

Some media outlets and other content creators are looking beyond the courts and calling for lawmakers or the U.S. Copyright Office to strengthen copyright protections for the AI era. A panel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Wednesday from media executives and advocates in a hearing dedicated to AI’s effect on journalism.

Roger Lynch, chief executive of the Conde Nast magazine chain, planned to tell senators that generative AI companies “are using our stolen intellectual property to build tools of replacement.”

“We believe that a legislative fix can be simple — clarifying that the use of copyrighted content in conjunction with commercial Gen AI is not fair use and requires a license,” says a copy of Lynch’s prepared remarks.