Chinese scholar challenges AI industry's fair-use defense in copyright debate
By MLex Staff ( July 29, 2026, 07:53 GMT | Insight) -- A leading Chinese intellectual-property scholar has recently argued that most AI training practices in the country fail to meet the legal standard for fair use, directly challenging a position increasingly adopted by the country's AI developers. Speaking at a weekend symposium, Hu Kaizhong, a law professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and deputy director of the National Copyright Administration's International Copyright Research Center, urged stronger protection for copyright holders when their works are used in AI training.A leading Chinese intellectual-property scholar has argued that most artificial-intelligence training practices in the country fail to meet the legal standard for fair use, directly challenging a position increasingly adopted by the China's AI developers....
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