By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026If that's so, the media companies who want nothing better than to pauperize creative workers can amend their standard contracts so that any worker who does business with them must irrevocably transfer their "AI training rights" to the company. 41/ 1255
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026Then, that company will *absolutely* license those rights to an AI company to create a model *designed to replace that worker*. The company will get paid for training, and the resulting model will have "guardrails" to stop other media companies from using proprietary data to compete with it. 42/ 1274
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026This is the story of the past 50 years of copyright expansion: every new copyright we've created "to help artists" was scooped up by their bosses 43/ 1266
