Hmm, I hadn't considered that, but I suppose Congress could enact a similar compulsory licensing procedure for AI. The hardest part will be identifying authors

Hmm, I hadn't considered that, but I suppose Congress could enact a similar compulsory licensing procedure for AI. The hardest part will be identifying authors though. I can certainly appreciate adherence to the law despite difficulty, but I think once it crosses impossibility, you have to reconsider the public policy benefits. Even if you could force someone to license you their work for a statutory fee, something like Wikipedia would still be off-limits since you could never contact all the anonymous Wikipedia users to send each of them his 4¢ royalty.