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title: "Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times (Axios)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-the-uspto-and-us-copyright-office-were-surprised-by-the-dojs-1e88a833
published: 2026-09-19T16:25:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times (Axios)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-09-19 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/sources-the-uspto-and-us-copyright-office-were-surprised-by-the-dojs-1e88a833

Axios : Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times — The Department of Justice's statement of interest supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in the New York Times' copyright infringement lawsuit …

In this story: [The New York Times](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/the-new-york-times), [US Department of Justice](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/us-department-of-justice)

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/260919/p8#a260919p8)

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