The fair-use boundary gate: unsettled leaves both transfer regimes open and the leverage fork decides; leaning one way reroutes toward a single regime. Logic only, no amounts asserted.
Training-input cash flow and copyright litigation leverage training corpora copyrighted works model builders' capex stack cash stays in corpora in · zero license cost no licensing payment works taken free, no compensation Authors no contractual claim sole lever: suit uncompensated taking suit fair-use boundary unsettled liability neither zero nor fully priced price of training becomes negotiation leverage decides licensing market forms transfer stays unilateral