I think it’s time for this conversation to be curated further. I’m trying to introduce artists to the premise that IP law seems to have enabled dozens of dams in a river of information that wants to run free. Mid 2000’s Hip Hop had it spot on by giving away mixtapes and then branding merch sales hard. Now with nostr/zaps we have a new set of tools to reframe the conversation. Furthermore, It seems that IP law in the internet age has predominately protected the major corps and allowed them to steer law in their favor. Where I get stuck is regardless of our ideals - how can we stop the corps from using the law against US? I’m seeing more creators getting demonetized and banned by AI auditing - even for content that has traditionally been “fair use”, like educational content. Automatically assuming guilt until proven innocent and forcing creators into an action/legal response. Here are a couple links on the subject that have stood out to me recently: Rick Beato - “This record label is trying to silence me” Anna’s Archive - “Copyright reform is necessary for national security”

Copyright reform is necessary for national security

TL;DR: Chinese LLMs (including DeepSeek) are trained on my illegal archive of books and papers — the largest in the world. The West needs to over...