Unlocking the Future: How AI Copyright Licensing Could Revolutionize the GAI Market Overnight
Ignoring licensing market harm results in damaging economic and legal consequences. Finding that AI licensing is not a market copyright owners are entitled to, courts in the Northern District of California threaten to destabilize the AI licensing market and undermine the entire copyright licensing structure that incentivizes creators. It is inconsistent with established fourth factor precedent to simply conclude that lost licensing fees don’t constitute market harm because such a market may not have been cognizable when a work was created.
