At PPA, protecting photographers’ copyrights has always been one of our highest priorities. Your ability to make a living depends on the respect and enforcement of your rights—and today, those rights are facing one of the biggest challenges of our lifetime. Right now, we are urging you to take action.

Generative AI companies are scraping copyrighted music, writing, images, and photography to train their models—without permission and without paying the creators who made them. Even more alarming, some are urging policymakers to retroactively declare this scraping as “fair use.”

This isn’t just a policy debate, it’s an issue that will determine the future of creative work.

How Unlicensed AI Training Negatively Impacts Creators

• Unlicensed scraping = exploitation. AI companies take creative work for free, while making billions from their products.
• Policy threats are real. Some lobbyists want Congress and the White House to make all past and future AI training automatically “fair use.”
• Your work is not “data.” It’s the result of talent, years of experience, and countless hours of effort. In just a keystroke, your intellectual property is being stolen without permission or payment.
• Strong copyright drives innovation. From smartphones to computer chips, American innovations have been built on protecting intellectual property.

What Creators Are Asking For

• To end the unlicensed scraping of creative works.
• To require AI companies to license and pay for all copyrighted materials.
• To ensure U.S. copyright law continues to support a thriving $2 trillion creative economy that employs over 11 million workers (that includes you!).

How You Can Help

PPA is joining forces with the Copyright Alliance in a nationwide letter-writing campaign. Having your voice heard doesn’t take long and it’s powerful! 

• Head to the Copyright Alliance’s website and select “Email Congress” or “Email the President”
• Use the provided template letter (or even better, write it using your own words!)
• Select “Send message”! 
• Encourage friends, family, and colleagues to do the same. Share it on social media!

The Copyright Alliance has made this task simple and easy, all you need to do is fill out the letter and send it off! Take action today and help us in the fight to protect intellectual property and say “No!” to unlicensed AI training.