Your Copyright Is Worthless. Here’s What’s Actually Being Stolen.
The wave of lawsuits against AI companies looks like a copyright battle, but it’s actually something far more unsettling: a colonial land grab where the land is human expression itself. Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement isn’t justice — it’s a precedent that retroactively licenses cultural capital while leaving individual creators with nothing. The legal system has no language for what’s really being stolen.