By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026Take the fight over scraping for AI. You might think that this is a fight over the economic rights of creative workers - certainly, my fellow creative workers treat it as such. 26/ 1292
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026But because this debate is being framed in terms of *property rights*, rather than *labor rights*, this is a fight that workers are set up to lose. 27/ 1453
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026The tell here is how the media companies - who have been eroding the wages of creative workers for decades as they consolidated into a curdled, inbred oligopoly - describe the AI companies' scraping: as an unlicensed taking. 28/ 1291
