“AI did not break copyright. It exposed how dependent the system has always been on assumptions of human scale: slow creation, limited distribution, manageable enforcement.
At AI scale, those assumptions collapse. Faced with that collapse, we are responding by extending licensing and control mechanisms not only to commercial exploitation, but to preservation itself.”

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The Quiet Burning of Our Digital Library

The story of the Library of Alexandria is often told as a catastrophe: flames, conquest, a single dramatic moment in which centuries of human knowledge vanished. But historians are far less certain about such a clean ending.