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Short of a police state, how would you enforce this?

This has napster -> subscription spotify energy. But the only people happy about that are Spotify and people who found it distasteful to download music illegally. There just wasn’t a consumer-friendly option for a while, so the black market was the only market.

So. The enforcement mechanism is what… a scary DMCA letter?

(There will definitely be a stupid DCAIA in the next congress)

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The copyright holder gets a share of ownership in any AI model derived from its work, and thus a share of any resulting revenue.

Even Taylor Swift and Elton John get micropennies per play.

In an (unrealizable) regime where all copyright holders are compensated, that would include picopennies for the discussion we’ve had!

All 10 million of them?

Any large corporation likely has more individual shareholders than that (particularly when you include indirect ownership via mutual funds).

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