Google is courting Hollywood studios for training licenses it doesn't legally need.

Google has reportedly approached several major studios seeking licensing agreements to train on copyrighted material in exchange for payment. The timing is the interesting part: it comes days after the DOJ argued training on copyrighted text is already fair use. Paying for what your own government just argued is free suggests the labs value negotiated access to high-quality video corpora, and studio goodwill, more than they trust the legal outcome.