I’ve been thinking recently that an overhaul to the copyright system could solve this. Return to a very low default (10 years? 20?). Allow extensions but a requ

I’ve been thinking recently that an overhaul to the copyright system could solve this. Return to a very low default (10 years? 20?). Allow extensions but a requirement for extension is submitting the work to a government managed digital data set that is licensed out to people to use as training data for these sorts of systems (or anything else a massive digitized cataloged library could be useful for). Licensing is some nominal amount of money and the revenue from that is distributed to copyright holders who have submitted their works in proportion to the recency and volume of content (with some cap to avoid flooding the system with content just to get more payouts. I’m sure there’s lots of unintended problems with this, but it does feel like a common base set of training data like this is exactly the sort of thing the government can and should do.