WhatA royalty collection and distribution platform — like ASCAP/BMI but for authors and content creators whose works are used in AI training datasets.
SignalThere is deep frustration that ordinary individuals faced severe legal consequences for small-scale piracy while trillion-dollar companies do the same at industrial scale with impunity — creators want a system that actually compensates them when their work generates AI value.
Why NowThe Anthropic $1.5B settlement establishes that AI companies will pay; now creators need infrastructure to actually collect and distribute those payments fairly and at scale.
MarketMillions of authors, journalists, photographers, and musicians whose work trains AI; publishers as aggregators. TAM grows with every new model trained. Gap: no ASCAP-equivalent exists for AI training royalties.
MoatAggregating creator rights creates a powerful collective bargaining position — once you represent enough creators, AI companies must deal with you, similar to how music PROs became unavoidable.
Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta ArguesView discussion ↗ · Article ↗ · 473 pts · March 7, 2026
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