Copyright protects expression, and the AI training cases now ask whether it also reaches what people and machines learn from it.
Basil C. Puglisi names the Inevitable Knowledge Transmission Argument and tests it against Bartz v. Anthropic, Thomson Reuters v. ROSS, GEMA v. OpenAI, and the 56 amicus briefs filed in the OpenAI litigation. The article separates acquisition, copying, training, memorization, and outputs, sets out two ways to pay creators without licensing learning, and records the strongest dissent against its own position.



