ALT I. Library Copyright Alliance Principles for Copyright and Artificial Intelligence The existing U.S. Copyright Act, as applied and interpreted by the Copyright Office and the courts, is fully capable at this time to address the intersection of copyright and AI without amendment. • Based on well-established precedent, the ingestion of copyrighted works to create large language models or other AI training databases generally is a fair use. • Because tens—if not hundreds—of millions of works are ingested to create an LLM, the contribution of any one work to the operation of the LLM is de minimis; accordingly, remuneration for ingestion is neither appropriate nor feasible. • Further, copyright owners can employ technical means such as the Robots Exclusion Protocol to prevent their works from being used to train AIs.