ASCAP for AI

Quick dispatch from the road: check out this partnership between Disney and OpenAI, and notice that

1. Disney gets lots of goodies like chatgpt usage and shares in Sam Altman’s money machine
   while

2. Sora users can use Disney characters.

Thus should remind you of how

1. You can play Jingle Bell Rock or Frosty the Snowman in your shop or on your radio station
   and

2. ASCAP collects a single fee for all your usage.

The AI copyright story is simple: the tools are super useful, so we’ll find a low friction way to pay to enable them. What we won’t do is burden users with individual payments for each individual invocation.