On March 20, 2026, the Trump Administration released its National AI Legislative Framework, a seven-section policy document covering children’s safety, energy infrastructure, intellectual property, censorship, innovation, workforce development, and federal preemption of state laws. Guided by a vision of “permissionless innovation” and “minimally burdensome” regulation, the framework’s most consequential provision is in Section III, where the White House states its belief that AI training on copyrighted material does not violate copyright law, but explicitly declines to ask Congress to codify that position, instead deferring the question to the courts and directing Congress not to take any action that would impact the judiciary’s resolution of the issue.
