Creator Ethics
& The Human Element Plan
AI companies should not be allowed to build enormously valuable products by taking books, artwork, music, journalism, performances, and other human creations without permission or payment.
Innovation must respect the people whose work makes it possible while preserving the physical and cultural record future generations deserve to inherit.
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Prohibits companies from destroying physical books to create artificial intelligence training libraries.
Bans removing bindings, cutting pages, or destroying purchased books for commercial AI training.
Requires nondestructive scanning or properly licensed digital editions whenever digitization is necessary.
Requires purchased books to be preserved, resold, or donated to libraries, schools, and archives.
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Requires affirmative permission before copyrighted creative work enters commercial AI training.
Establishes an opt-in licensing system rather than requiring creators to discover and reject unauthorized use.
Requires licenses to identify the works, models, purposes, duration, and permitted future uses.
Clarifies that posting work online does not constitute permission for commercial AI training.
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Requires AI companies to pay creators whose copyrighted work trains commercial models.
Establishes minimum compensation whenever copyrighted work contributes to a commercial AI training dataset and whenever the AI references their work during its token use.
Guarantees creators a direct, nonwaivable share even when publishers or distributors manage licensing.
Requires recurring compensation when companies reuse protected work for new models or major versions.
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Requires companies to identify copyrighted works used to train artificial intelligence models.
Creates a searchable public registry listing each work, creator, source, license, and model involved.
Requires disclosure before model release and whenever substantial training data are added.
Gives creators a process to challenge inaccurate records and identify unauthorized use.
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Bans artificial intelligence companies from training models with stolen or unlawfully copied works.
Requires documented proof that every protected training work came from a lawful source.
Clarifies that purchasing a work later does not excuse or legalize an earlier pirated copy.
Authorizes damages, profit recovery, corrective orders, and release restrictions for systemic violations.
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Guarantees creators the right to bargain collectively with artificial intelligence companies for the individual work that is utilized to train AI models.
Allows a creator to pay one transparent, one-time fee to place a specific work into collective bargaining without committing their other work.
Gives collective representatives antitrust protection to negotiate binding royalty rates, licensing terms, and permitted AI uses.
Requires accurate attribution, transparent usage records, independent audits, and direct royalty payments to participating creators.