The administration’s new AI Action Plan is packed with sweeping proposals on infrastructure, innovation and international competition. It features executive orders on datacenter siting, AI export promotion and procurement mandates designed to ensure ideological neutrality in federal use of large language models. But one thing is conspicuously absent: any meaningful action on copyright or intellectual property as it relates to artificial intelligence.

That omission is not accidental. It reflects a strategic decision to let the courts take the lead on what may be one of the most politically volatile and technically complex issues in the AI policy landscape.

In the last few months, the judiciary has stepped into the vacuum. In Bartz v. Anthropic, the courts delivered a major win for AI deve

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