Unlocking the Secret: How Blanket Licensing Could Revolutionize Generative AI—and What It Means for You
I am a technologist by background; I became fascinated with the use of information technology to manage copyrights at the start of the Internet age back in the mid-1990s, when I was working as an IT executive in the publishing industry and serving on an industry committee that was developing standards for managing copyrights in the online era. I thought that with the Internet’s massive scale and virtually nonexistent cost to reproduce content, technology held the keys to solutions to various problems in rights management, from managing licenses and royalties all the way through to distributing content to users; and I got involved with a few of those solutions. The blog has since gone the way of many blogs – i.e., by the wayside.
