U.S. Copyright Office proposed the registration fees’≈43%

increase. In return, they received 164 comments from some of the nation's most influential creative and news organizations; the response suggests widespread concern about the accessibility of copyright protection.

A policy analysis on why unregulated AI threatens cultural survival and why the music industry is already the proof.

Artificial intelligence is already transforming society for better and, without guardrails, for far worse. The real question is not whether AI will disrupt culture, labor, or truth. It already has. The question is whether laws, rights, and public protections will shape that transformation, or whether we will be left cleaning up the wreckage of cultural exploitation and economic collapse after it happens.