Strong IP Strong AI

Strong IP Strong AI: A Copyright Alliance Campaign

Join our initiative by taking action below. Email your state elected officials and the President today!

Americans produce the world’s most valuable creative works, widely sought after and used to develop and train AI. 

Copyright law incentivizes and protects this strategic advantage by empowering creators, workers, and individuals to control their work—typically requiring users of copyrighted works, including those in countries like China and Russia, to get permission and pay American creators before using and exploiting their work.

Calls by some generative AI giants to “delete all IP” or categorically pronounce AI training as “fair use” that can proceed without getting permission or paying creators and workers would forfeit this U.S. strategic edge, allowing any company or nation to copy and exploit incredibly valuable American resources for free at a massive scale. 

The Strong IP Strong AI campaign is designed to rally creators to protect American innovation and ensure America doesn’t squander its strategic edge in highly valuable and sought-after copyrighted works used as training materials or take costly shortcuts that undermine America’s own resources and give a free pass to foreign competitors. 

Past American success stories, from the creation of the internet to the modern streaming era, have shown that strong IP doesn’t hold innovation back. Instead, it pushes us forward to greater and greater heights. The Strong IP Strong AI campaign will marshal that historical record to ensure policymakers understand licensing creative works doesn’t hold back progress on AI, it fuels it.

Say ‘No’ to Unlicensed AI Training!

Below you’ll find the letters’ campaigns that the Copyright Alliance is facilitating. We encourage all creators and friends of the creative community to review the campaigns and participate in the ones that matter most to you.

It’s time to start taking action TODAY. Check out the letters, share them with your creator friends, and let’s raise our voices together in support of creators and copyright while it counts.

Quotes by Elected Officials and Industry Leaders on AI and IP

President Donald J. Trump

“Through our promotion and protection of intellectual property, we are empowering musicians, writers, authors, scientists, and inventors to focus on what they do best. The future of our great Nation depends on the continued safeguarding of our intellectual property, which fuels economic growth, technological progress, and global competitiveness.” —President Trump on his World IP Day, April 26, 2025 Proclamation

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO)

“Today’s hearing is about the largest IP theft in American history…AI companies are training their models on stolen materials. Period. That is just the fact of the matter. We’re talking about piracy. We’re talking about theft.—Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO), SJC Crime Subcommittee Hearing, July 16, 2025

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD)

“Innovation depends on stable and predictable rules that people can rely on to secure their inventions and property rights, manufacture their products, and attract investors and consumers to their businesses. … the U.S. IP system is still lauded around the world for its ability to spur innovation and creativity.” —Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), May 7, 2025

Representative Adrian Smith (R-NE)

“Intellectual property infringement discourages American ingenuity and threatens future advancement. The United States is home to the most pioneering economic ventures in the world because of our commitment to freedom, opportunity, and rule of law. Safeguards for the rights of American innovators must be maintained.” —Representative Adrian Smith (R-NE), April 29, 2025

Senator Peter Welch (D-VA)

“The main reason [IP is] so profoundly important is not just to protect the content and the monetary compensations that artists are entitled, it’s really to make certain that the artistic community can continue to contribute to helping our society understand the world we are in. That is profoundly important to the well-being of our democracy – I believe that in the bottom of my bones.” —Senator Peter Welch (D-VA), April 8, 2025

Representative Ben Cline (R-VA)

“… you have big tech companies arguing that scraping copyrighted material for AI falls under fair use, but this practice could severely undermine artists, journalists, and content creators.” —Representative Ben Cline (R-VA), April 2, 2024

The New York Times

“Among voters who backed Trump in the 2024 presidential election, 87% agree that AI developers should obtain permission from writers and artists before using their creative works to train for-profit AI models and that “effective guardrails” are needed to “protect people from being exploited” by the technology.” —New York Times article, July 9, 2025

OSTP Director Michael Kratsios

“This approach to promoting America’s technological leadership goes hand in hand with a threefold strategy for protecting that position from foreign rivals. First, we must safeguard U.S. intellectual property and take seriously American research security.”  —OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, April 14, 2025