The Financial Post reports in its Wednesday, Feb. 19, edition that the U.S. economy relies heavily on intellectual property, contributing 41 per cent of the GDP from IP-intensive industries, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The Post's guest columnist Danielle Coffey writes that this encompasses various sectors, from podcasters to newspapers, and supports free speech and creativity. However, artificial intelligence companies have often exploited others' intellectual property to enhance their products. The United States has thrived by fostering experimentation and protecting its results, but recent technological changes require new legal decisions. That is why last Thursday, for the first time ever, a diverse group of news and magazine members of the News/media Alliance came together to sue an AI company, Cohere, that Ms. Coffey believes has been egregiously violating copyright protections as it trains its model and spits out answers for its users. Cohere is a rapidly growing AI company that is being accused of not even trying to hide the fact that it is lifting content and offering it free -- and verbatim -- to users. The Canadian company flaunts the evidence, providing its own receipts.